smithbasement
New Member
I made a couple rookie mistakes. I was careless during the sparge of an oatmeal stout recipe and collected too much wort. I then went ahead and boiled it down to about 6 gallons. The SG was way off, about 1.043. After a week in the fermenter it's at 1.015 and seems to have exhausted the yeast.
Is it too late to attempt to salvage this beer? I know I could have added some DME to the boil, but I did a calculation of what it would take to bring the SG to where it needed to be and found I needed 2.2 lbs. I didn't have that much on hand so I just gave up.
Even tough I now have a very thin, low gravity stout, should I leave well enough alone, or can it be salvaged by boilng some more wort with DME and dumping in that? Is there a better way to salvage this? Will I also need to dump in more yeast?
Any suggestions appreciated.
Is it too late to attempt to salvage this beer? I know I could have added some DME to the boil, but I did a calculation of what it would take to bring the SG to where it needed to be and found I needed 2.2 lbs. I didn't have that much on hand so I just gave up.
Even tough I now have a very thin, low gravity stout, should I leave well enough alone, or can it be salvaged by boilng some more wort with DME and dumping in that? Is there a better way to salvage this? Will I also need to dump in more yeast?
Any suggestions appreciated.