rebelproud
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So, I decided to make a big beer today, and I'm trying to make it about 9-11% alcohol and just over 100 IBU's. Its an extract brew, and I've been messing around with the recipe for about a week now until I decided on a final recipe this morning.
The problem is, I decided that instead of going with 12 lbs. of LME, I decided that I would go with 6 lbs LME + 4 lbs DME and 1 lb. Brown Sugar, and by accident all I did was 12 lbs. LME plus the 4 lbs. DME and 1 lb Brown Sugar.
So, basically instead of substituting 6 lbs out of the 12 pounds LME for DME and brown sugar, I added the DME and brown sugar along with the entire 12 lbs. LME. I hope this doesn't sound too confusing. What I'm wondering is can I add maybe a couple gallons of water and some boiled hops in about a week to even this all out and get me back to where I wanted to be? Because, right now the gravity reading is a whopping 1.3 and it is sweet as can be.
What I want to do is boil some more hops for an hour or so in a couple gallons of water about a week from now and add that into the batch after it has been fermenting for a week.
Does anyone know if this will be good, or is there another way to salvage this batch? Also, the yeast I'm working with is WLP001 if that matters.
Thanks!
The problem is, I decided that instead of going with 12 lbs. of LME, I decided that I would go with 6 lbs LME + 4 lbs DME and 1 lb. Brown Sugar, and by accident all I did was 12 lbs. LME plus the 4 lbs. DME and 1 lb Brown Sugar.
So, basically instead of substituting 6 lbs out of the 12 pounds LME for DME and brown sugar, I added the DME and brown sugar along with the entire 12 lbs. LME. I hope this doesn't sound too confusing. What I'm wondering is can I add maybe a couple gallons of water and some boiled hops in about a week to even this all out and get me back to where I wanted to be? Because, right now the gravity reading is a whopping 1.3 and it is sweet as can be.
What I want to do is boil some more hops for an hour or so in a couple gallons of water about a week from now and add that into the batch after it has been fermenting for a week.
Does anyone know if this will be good, or is there another way to salvage this batch? Also, the yeast I'm working with is WLP001 if that matters.
Thanks!