Nut Brown, how does this look?

[Lil' Sparky]

Any time, chief.

 

[TechyDork]

Brewed this up last night,

color was right where i thought it should be, a nice carmely brown. My OG was a little lower than i thought it should be @ 1.051, beersmith said it should be 1.061. I think next time i will up the extract to 7.bs from 6lbs. pitched the notty at midnight last night, and at 6am today she was bubbling away!! :rockin:



i will keep everyone posted on how this one turns out.

 

[Bob]

Don't worry too much about the difference in OG. Extract will give you a certain OG; discrepancies are invariably the result of layering in the fermenter when the gravity sample was collected. While there are differences in the gravity potential of different extracts, 10 points isn't in that window.

Glad you had a good brewing session!

Bob

 

[Lil' Sparky]

Collecting more final volume than the recipe calculated will also cause a lower gravity.

 

[TechyDork]

I wasn't to worried about the OG i guess that just mean it won't have as high of and ABV, which is ok with me.

I will update this thread as things move along.

i also input this recipe as a partial mash, because i used some pale 2-row and steped it for 60 min at 155. i wonder if beersmith was counting on getting some fermentables out of the grains used?

 

[TechyDork]

after 48hrs, i have a large amount of Krausen in the carboy, 6 gallon and a little is coming out the blow off tube. looks like everything is moving along well, temp is steady at 62 ambient.