i'm brewing an Irish red. i know it's not ruined, but i'd like to know how i accomplished this...
OG (2/16) 1.060
SG on
2/23 1.030
2/26 1.025
3/1 1.020
3/3 1.021
all of these are temperature-adjusted figures.
i know you'll ask for it, so here's all the details
5 gallon batch (well, slightly under 5)
6lb amber LME
1lb gold light DME
8 oz special B malt
8 oz cara-pils malt
2 oz willamette hope @ boil
yeast WLP028
here's where i think i screwed up -
i've been using an aquarium heater to keep the wort warm (it's out in the cold garage) and it's been holding fairly steady between 65-68f, until yesterday, when for some reason it decided to spike up to 79f, so i turned it way down, added some cool water and monitored as it cooled back to 65f. got the heater back to normal (or so i thought) went and pulled a sample just now, and checked the temp. temp said 43f , gravity reads 1.024, adjusted that should be 1.023, so far as i can tell. also it's way cloudier than the others have been.
from lurking around here i'm going to assume that my best course of action is to rdwhahb, but i don't have any homebrews, so a redhook will have to do.
really what i want to know is where this "extra gravity" is coming from, or kinda what's going on bio-chemically speaking to raise that number.
i'm letting the sample warm up to room temp, then i'll see what it reads once it's up where the other samples have been (just in case i've been converting wrong or something...)
OG (2/16) 1.060
SG on
2/23 1.030
2/26 1.025
3/1 1.020
3/3 1.021
all of these are temperature-adjusted figures.
i know you'll ask for it, so here's all the details
5 gallon batch (well, slightly under 5)
6lb amber LME
1lb gold light DME
8 oz special B malt
8 oz cara-pils malt
2 oz willamette hope @ boil
yeast WLP028
here's where i think i screwed up -
i've been using an aquarium heater to keep the wort warm (it's out in the cold garage) and it's been holding fairly steady between 65-68f, until yesterday, when for some reason it decided to spike up to 79f, so i turned it way down, added some cool water and monitored as it cooled back to 65f. got the heater back to normal (or so i thought) went and pulled a sample just now, and checked the temp. temp said 43f , gravity reads 1.024, adjusted that should be 1.023, so far as i can tell. also it's way cloudier than the others have been.
from lurking around here i'm going to assume that my best course of action is to rdwhahb, but i don't have any homebrews, so a redhook will have to do.
really what i want to know is where this "extra gravity" is coming from, or kinda what's going on bio-chemically speaking to raise that number.
i'm letting the sample warm up to room temp, then i'll see what it reads once it's up where the other samples have been (just in case i've been converting wrong or something...)