orignal OG

[tandersen123]

I have been using hopville.com for my recipes and my original gravity is not coming up as high as the suggested OG and I'm not sure why. I cool my wort down to 70 then check with my hydrometer before pitching with my yeast last recipe it estimated 1.065 but I got 1.048.

Hydro

 

[Shaneoco1981]

We would need recipe, what you did and any other information you can give to make an estimation into where you possibly went wrong, or why your OG was so low.

 

[tandersen123]

SPECIALTY GRAINS/LIQUID EXTRACT
LB OZ Malt or Fermentable
7 0 Amber Liquid Extract
1 0 Crystal 20L 34
1 0 Dextrin (CaraPils) Malt
0 8 Cherry Smoked Malt
0 6 Biscuit Malt
0 1 Chocolate Malt
HOPS
use time oz variety form
boil 60 mins 1.0 Willamette leaf
boil 20 mins 0.5 Hallertauer pellet
boil 10 mins 0.5 Saaz pellet

YEAST
American Ale Blend

Steeped specialty grains in 3 gallons of tap water @155 for 30 min then brought to rolling boil and added liquid extract. Followed hop schedule. I put 1 gallon of frozen bottles spring water in fermenting bucket poured wort on top through strainer added 1 cold gallon of spring water stirred in ice bath till temp came down to about 70 checked hydrometer reading pitched yeast put lid on with airlock and put away.

Hydro