Was I boiling to vigorously? I stepped away for most of the boil but didn't think I could boil off almost 4 gal of wort. I am using a SQ14 and keggle for my full boils. This is my second brew ever and on the first one I boiled over in a keggle. I guess I am just turning it up to high? Any tips on getting a boil and then turning it down?
I ended up topping off my brew with about 2.5 gal of bottled water to get it down to my target OG. 2.5 gal brought it down from 1.101 to 1.049. I also just looked at my notes and saw that preboil was 1.063 which seems high for preboil. The only thing I can think of is that I didn't mix the sparge water in well enough before taking a reading? I also sparged with 190* water. It was a quickly put together brew and BeerSmith spit out some funky numbers. I tried to change it but wasn't getting any different data so I went with it.
I checked on the beer last night and its bubbling away in the fermenter so we'll just see how this turns out.
I ended up topping off my brew with about 2.5 gal of bottled water to get it down to my target OG. 2.5 gal brought it down from 1.101 to 1.049. I also just looked at my notes and saw that preboil was 1.063 which seems high for preboil. The only thing I can think of is that I didn't mix the sparge water in well enough before taking a reading? I also sparged with 190* water. It was a quickly put together brew and BeerSmith spit out some funky numbers. I tried to change it but wasn't getting any different data so I went with it.
I checked on the beer last night and its bubbling away in the fermenter so we'll just see how this turns out.