Too Hugh (the OG not me)

[Elmo Peach]

I was cleaning up the grain bin I found 4 pounds of 2 row. 3 pounds of DME pils, 1 pound of flaked maze and for some reason that I can't seem to remember i found 1 pound of rice syrup solids. I wanted to use up the old stock and get ready for the Märzen I wanted to brew next month

I punched the the numbers into Brewfather and came up with an OG of 1.053. Great thinks I. I nice summer beer while I lager the Märzen. I adjusted the water volume for a 17 litres ( 4.5 gal.) in the Brewfather app

Here is what happened: 4.5 gallon batch to be brewed so I could fermenting in corny keg. Using the "scraps" from last year.
4lbs. 2 row
3 lbs. DME
1 lb. flaked maize
(here8s where I think I went off the rails)
! lb. Rice syrup solids

Mashed in at 65c (149f) for ! hour. Added 14 grams(1/2 oz.) Magnum 14.5 aa hops at his time
At ten minutes left in the boil I added 28 grams (1 0z.) Saaz 3.4 aa

Chilled wort then added Lutra dried KVeik yeast.

When I took a hydrometer reading after wort had cooled I got a reading of 1.076! I have never got any reading like this before. My questions are has anyone brewed a beer with this high of a reading, will it me drinkable and how strong is this going to be is going to be an 8% beer like the app predicts.

 

[day_trippr]

Nearly all of my IPAs clock in with OGs in the 70s...with ABVs in the 8s...

Cheers!

 

[hotbeer]

Maybe your mash efficiency was better. But how did you figure the rice syrup solids? That's essentially pure sugar isn't it. Though mostly maltose and glucose?

I came up with 1.067 OG with 70% efficiency. 80% would get you 1.071. But some of the fermentable I picked might have been different extraction numbers than what you picked for the 2 row and maize.

And there is always the question of how much wort did you actually wind up with after the boil.

 

[Elmo Peach]

I did not remember why I bought the Rice Syrup solids. The end of boil I had 4.5 gallons

 

[lumpher]

That does seem high. At 4.5 gallons, DME would add about 9-10 points per pound, the Rice Solids about the same, and the 2 Row would add about 7. By my rough calculations, it should come out in the low to mid 1.060's, maybe 1.063-1.065, depending on the efficiency of the 4 pounds of 2 Row. I plugged the numbers into Brewer's Friend as a cross-check, and it says 1.063, based on what I selected just to get a ballpark figure. As hotbeer suggested, these numbers are only ballpark since we don't know a lot of details, but should be close; somewhere between 1.063 and 1.067. 1 thing to watch now is hops level. If you got a really high OG, that will affect the hop flavor. I'd dry-hop it and call it an IPA, at that level.

 

[Elmo Peach]

That does seem high. At 4.5 gallons, DME would add about 9-10 points per pound, the Rice Solids about the same, and the 2 Row would add about 7. By my rough calculations, it should come out in the low to mid 1.060's, maybe 1.063-1.065, depending on the efficiency of the 4 pounds of 2 Row. I plugged the numbers into Brewer's Friend as a cross-check, and it says 1.063, based on what I selected just to get a ballpark figure. As hotbeer suggested, these numbers are only ballpark since we don't know a lot of details, but should be close; somewhere between 1.063 and 1.067. 1 thing to watch now is hops level. If you got a really high OG, that will affect the hop flavor. I'd dry-hop it and call it an IPA, at that level.

I checked OG 3 times hydrometer and refractometer I think it wee the Rice syrup solids