alz28
Well-Known Member
Decided to do my first Stout this past Sunday a Southern Star Burried Hatchet Clone. During my boil I was checking my gravity trying to boil down to a 1.088. Well to make a long story short I boiled down to a 1.089 and started to chill my wort. After all chilling I ended up with a 1.079. I noticed that it was also hapening with my Witt beer. When I check it durring boil it shows higher gravity and lower gravity after chilling. I know I must be doing somthing wrong. I give time for the wort sample to cool even though its only a few drops. The way I am taking samples durring the boil is by taking a spoon and taking a sample off the top of the boil kettel as well as sticking the end of the refractrometer in the wort. When I stick the refractrometer in the wort I give it a while longer to cool because the body of the refractrometer is holding alot of heat. Durring to boil process I noticed its hard not to get trub in the taken sample as well. Tell me what Im doing wrong? Thanks Fellas.