I was shooting for an OG of 1.093 for a Dogfish 90-min IPA clone. I used BeerSmith to scale the recipe down from 5 gallons to 2.5. I ended up with a reading of 1.062.
I've been brewing AG for 13 years and never seen such a huge discrepancy.
The thing is that I decanted and added a 0.7L yeast starter and oxygenated the beer before taking the OG reading (with both a calibrated hydrometer and a refractometer) and am wondering how in the world I could have missed it by such a huge number. This is not a normal practice for me, I just forgot to take the reading before moving to the fermenter. Sure, there would be some alcohol from the yeast starter... but I did decant most of the liquid before pitching. Did this have anything to do with the whiff here?
Will you guys weigh in? I am not sure if/how I didn't get incomplete conversion somehow or what and would like your thoughts so I don't repeat a mistake in a future batch.
I've been brewing AG for 13 years and never seen such a huge discrepancy.
The thing is that I decanted and added a 0.7L yeast starter and oxygenated the beer before taking the OG reading (with both a calibrated hydrometer and a refractometer) and am wondering how in the world I could have missed it by such a huge number. This is not a normal practice for me, I just forgot to take the reading before moving to the fermenter. Sure, there would be some alcohol from the yeast starter... but I did decant most of the liquid before pitching. Did this have anything to do with the whiff here?
Will you guys weigh in? I am not sure if/how I didn't get incomplete conversion somehow or what and would like your thoughts so I don't repeat a mistake in a future batch.
- 3.78 gallons mash (RO corrected to Pale Ale profile in bru'n water)
- 0.88 gallons sparge (same as above)
- 8lbs 0.2 oz Great Wester Domestic 2-Row (2 SRM)
- 13.2 oz Munich Malt (9 SRM)
- 2.0 oz rice hulls
- Hops (Amarillo, Simcoe, Warrior) continuously added every 5 minutes during boil
- Dough-in at 150, mash for 60 min
- Mash-out at 168, sparge at 168
- Boil for 90 min
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