Super high gravity...

[spbrhs07]

Experimenting with new recipes again! These little 1 gallon experiments drive me nuts! The end goal here is a high alcohol, super hoppy beer, just want to get that out of the way up front...

Recipe here: http://www.brewersfriend.com/homebrew/recipe/view/273465/ipa-experiment-2-small-

Was aiming for about 1.12 OG, ended up at 1.142 so apparently there's way more sugar in the wort? Using Wyeast Scottish Ale yeast, pitched from slurry that I harvested about 2 weeks ago as a 400mL starter so don't know the exact pitch rate but after 10hrs it's going crazy. What can I expect from the yeast? If the yeast succeeds at fermenting all of the sugar, I feel like I'm gonna end up with liquor instead of beer... But I believe the alcohol tolerance of the yeast is around 12%? Thoughts?

 

[spbrhs07]

Bump?

 

[jlvgolf]

I would guess that you'll probably have a proportionally higher FG than brewersfriend predicts and it won't be an issue. Do you have any ideas why your OG was so much higher than expected?

 

[spbrhs07]

I would guess that you'll probably have a proportionally higher FG than brewersfriend predicts and it won't be an issue. Do you have any ideas why your OG was so much higher than expected?

About 4 days ago I racked to secondary for dry hop. FG was 1.036 so it still fermented completely. ABV comes to 13.91%. If I work the math backwards, the high OG can be attributed to slightly more water boiling off than anticipated. I calculated 0.9 gallon in the fermentor. This also puts the IBU at about 150... [emoji15]

 

[jlvgolf]

Nice strong beer!

 

[pdxal]

IBU won't be 150. I hope it turns out well.