Hi all - I had a mistake in my last batch and I missed my target OG by quite a bit. Initially I thought it was due to my mistake, but beersmith seems to think otherwise. Thoughts?
The mistake: I added a zero in my recipe order to my LHBS (COVID, they measure and mill...) and got 58g instead of 580g of one of my grains.
Recipe:
- 4.11kg 2 row pils (german, 2.0 SRM)
- 610g Candi Sugar clear (0.5 SRM)
- 58g Carared (22SRM) (*** was supposed to be 580g)
- Wyeast #3787 (3L starter, decanted)
- water additions to bring the mash Ph to 5.3 as per bru'n water
batch size": 14L
I mashed at 69.4c, BIAB, about 90 minutes (I check gravity every 10 minutes and stop when it stops changing).
Beer smith says I should expect: (**All with the corrected, lower grain bill, not the original)
pre-boil 1.061 (I got 1.05)
post boil OG (before yeast starter) 1.085 (I got 1.064)
- My mash efficiency is set to 78%, and until now, my numbers are bang on.
- I am measuring using a refractometer. I recently did a thorough re-calibration, and it's a 1:1 match with my hydrometer.
- I measure the wort always at room temp
I just bottled the beer, and it came out as 1.019FG which was a little high. nothing I did could make it come down so I bottled.
So, I don't have much experience with recipe creation, but something seems fishy for me here. This seems like a huge miss, and that 500g missing grain doesn't seem to explain it. Thoughts?
The mistake: I added a zero in my recipe order to my LHBS (COVID, they measure and mill...) and got 58g instead of 580g of one of my grains.
Recipe:
- 4.11kg 2 row pils (german, 2.0 SRM)
- 610g Candi Sugar clear (0.5 SRM)
- 58g Carared (22SRM) (*** was supposed to be 580g)
- Wyeast #3787 (3L starter, decanted)
- water additions to bring the mash Ph to 5.3 as per bru'n water
batch size": 14L
I mashed at 69.4c, BIAB, about 90 minutes (I check gravity every 10 minutes and stop when it stops changing).
Beer smith says I should expect: (**All with the corrected, lower grain bill, not the original)
pre-boil 1.061 (I got 1.05)
post boil OG (before yeast starter) 1.085 (I got 1.064)
- My mash efficiency is set to 78%, and until now, my numbers are bang on.
- I am measuring using a refractometer. I recently did a thorough re-calibration, and it's a 1:1 match with my hydrometer.
- I measure the wort always at room temp
I just bottled the beer, and it came out as 1.019FG which was a little high. nothing I did could make it come down so I bottled.
So, I don't have much experience with recipe creation, but something seems fishy for me here. This seems like a huge miss, and that 500g missing grain doesn't seem to explain it. Thoughts?