amh61
Well-Known Member
Just finished up my third brew, the furious IPA kit from Midwest.
Everything went pretty well this morning but I have a few questions.
First, I took a hydrometer reading and got a reading of about 1.032. I used 9.3lbs of LME - something seems really off here. My guess is that the wort and top off water (4 gallon starting boil, down to 3.5 with 1.5 gallons top off) were not fully mixed. But could there be anything else I'm missing.
Second, when I plug the recipe I use into beer calculus I get a very high IBU reading, like past 100. My understanding and cursory research shows that you really can't get higher than 100 IBUs in a homebrew and that amount will be lowered via dilution with top off water. So given that I'm assuming my IBUs for the wort was 100 (3.5 gallons) and I topped off with 1.5 gallons of water I should end up with about 70 IBUs? Am I off base here?
Thanks for any response. I'm not super concerned about any of these problems, as I'm sure it will turn out great (and it is the first time I'm using temperature control). I'll just RDWAHAB.
Everything went pretty well this morning but I have a few questions.
First, I took a hydrometer reading and got a reading of about 1.032. I used 9.3lbs of LME - something seems really off here. My guess is that the wort and top off water (4 gallon starting boil, down to 3.5 with 1.5 gallons top off) were not fully mixed. But could there be anything else I'm missing.
Second, when I plug the recipe I use into beer calculus I get a very high IBU reading, like past 100. My understanding and cursory research shows that you really can't get higher than 100 IBUs in a homebrew and that amount will be lowered via dilution with top off water. So given that I'm assuming my IBUs for the wort was 100 (3.5 gallons) and I topped off with 1.5 gallons of water I should end up with about 70 IBUs? Am I off base here?
Thanks for any response. I'm not super concerned about any of these problems, as I'm sure it will turn out great (and it is the first time I'm using temperature control). I'll just RDWAHAB.