Hello all,
I just got a Northern Brewer 3 gallon kit (BIAB, even though I am not brewing in a bag, I plan on using my Rubbermaid mash/lauter tun) called Oatmeal Cookie Brown Ale. Anyway, here are the mash ingredients:
That is a total of 9.33 lbs of grain. The recipe says that the O.G. after Boil should be 1.066. However, after plugging the numbers into Beersmith I get an O.G. after boil of 1.076 with a 70% Eff. This gives me a beer with roughly 8% ABV after fermentation.
Why are these numbers not adding up. Plus, it does seem like this is a lot of grain for a 3 gallon batch. Help Please
I just got a Northern Brewer 3 gallon kit (BIAB, even though I am not brewing in a bag, I plan on using my Rubbermaid mash/lauter tun) called Oatmeal Cookie Brown Ale. Anyway, here are the mash ingredients:
- 5.5 lbs Fawcett Optic Malt
- 1 lb Flaked Oats
- 1 lb Belgian Munich Malt
- 1 lb Belgian Special B
- .5 lb Brown Malt
- .33 lb Fawcett Pale Chocolate
That is a total of 9.33 lbs of grain. The recipe says that the O.G. after Boil should be 1.066. However, after plugging the numbers into Beersmith I get an O.G. after boil of 1.076 with a 70% Eff. This gives me a beer with roughly 8% ABV after fermentation.
Why are these numbers not adding up. Plus, it does seem like this is a lot of grain for a 3 gallon batch. Help Please