Hello all.
I'm a noob brewer; today I tried making the lemon lime hefeweizen recipe. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=255659
My first mistake: the recipe is for a 6 gallon batch, I had a brain fart and read it as 5...
Additionally, I only have a 3 gallon carboy, so I proceeded to weigh out grains assuming I would be converting the recipe weight from 5 gallon to 6 gallon. Basically, I ended up multiplying everything by 60% when it should have been 50%.
I did a partial boil. I actually did this in two pots at once because I didn't have a vessle large enough to contain all of the grain. One was in a steeping bag (it was mostly immersed, but I'm worried that it wasn't immersed enough). the other I just poured into the pot.
One pot was at 150 degrees, the other at around 145 degrees. I poured the hot water from one pot over the grain bed in a strainer on the other part (sparging??) a bunch of times for about 5-10 minutes doing the same thing to the other pot.
I did the boiling of the hops. Afterward, I topped off with cold water, and took a specific gravity: 1.020!!
FYI, I crushed the grains at the brew store.
Can anyone comment on what I may have done wrong, or what I might do to recover my batch? It's cooling now, but I'm tempted to toss it , tastes way too hoppy.
I'm a noob brewer; today I tried making the lemon lime hefeweizen recipe. https://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=255659
My first mistake: the recipe is for a 6 gallon batch, I had a brain fart and read it as 5...
Additionally, I only have a 3 gallon carboy, so I proceeded to weigh out grains assuming I would be converting the recipe weight from 5 gallon to 6 gallon. Basically, I ended up multiplying everything by 60% when it should have been 50%.
I did a partial boil. I actually did this in two pots at once because I didn't have a vessle large enough to contain all of the grain. One was in a steeping bag (it was mostly immersed, but I'm worried that it wasn't immersed enough). the other I just poured into the pot.
One pot was at 150 degrees, the other at around 145 degrees. I poured the hot water from one pot over the grain bed in a strainer on the other part (sparging??) a bunch of times for about 5-10 minutes doing the same thing to the other pot.
I did the boiling of the hops. Afterward, I topped off with cold water, and took a specific gravity: 1.020!!
FYI, I crushed the grains at the brew store.
Can anyone comment on what I may have done wrong, or what I might do to recover my batch? It's cooling now, but I'm tempted to toss it , tastes way too hoppy.