Good morning All,
Been awhile since I've been on the forums. I have recently gotten back into homebrewing, and have had some interesting results.
Yesterday, I brewed an 5 gal. extract wheat beer with the following bill:
6 lb Wheat DME
1 lb Malted Wheat (Steeped at 160 F)
.5 lb Crystal 10L (Steeped at 160 F)
.5 lb Flaked Oats (Steeped at 160 F)
Everything went great, until I took my pre-pitching gravity reading and got a 1.067! I was astonished. From the DME I was expecting about 1.048, and I was NOT expecting any sort of conversion from my specialty grains (is that even possible at 160 F?), and so have no idea where that extra 19 gravity points came from.
Everything was well mixed and at room temp when I took the reading, so I'm not sure what else it could be. Any thoughts?
Been awhile since I've been on the forums. I have recently gotten back into homebrewing, and have had some interesting results.
Yesterday, I brewed an 5 gal. extract wheat beer with the following bill:
6 lb Wheat DME
1 lb Malted Wheat (Steeped at 160 F)
.5 lb Crystal 10L (Steeped at 160 F)
.5 lb Flaked Oats (Steeped at 160 F)
Everything went great, until I took my pre-pitching gravity reading and got a 1.067! I was astonished. From the DME I was expecting about 1.048, and I was NOT expecting any sort of conversion from my specialty grains (is that even possible at 160 F?), and so have no idea where that extra 19 gravity points came from.
Everything was well mixed and at room temp when I took the reading, so I'm not sure what else it could be. Any thoughts?