hilljack13
That's what she said!
Since I am restarting, going from extract to all grain, I might as well be a newby.
I did my first brew today on my G40. It was NB Caribou Slobber. Everything went great and the steps from the GF app were nice. Clean up was super simple and half of it I was able to do during the boil.
One issue I had, due to my own over eagerness. Once the grains were mashed in I felt like I was missing something. I knew it! I had 60 min to mash so I need to put in the 60 min hops. WHOOPS! Yes, that happened. I realized it immediately. O'well, s*$t happens.
All that said, my main issue is with (as the title says) my SG was 1.042?? WTF?? This thing was supposed to be 1.052. That's a big drop IMO. To be fair, I did what the app said and added all the water to start and did not sparge. I was supposed to have 5.5 gal in the fermenter and ended up with ~5.8 according to the lines in the Spike Flex+
I figured that would lower the SG but 10 points? I admit I have never hit expected SG with extracts but I have never been this low. Other than double checking the volume at the end of the boil, what else do I should I be looking at to hit the SG? Am I even use SG correct?
I did my first brew today on my G40. It was NB Caribou Slobber. Everything went great and the steps from the GF app were nice. Clean up was super simple and half of it I was able to do during the boil.
One issue I had, due to my own over eagerness. Once the grains were mashed in I felt like I was missing something. I knew it! I had 60 min to mash so I need to put in the 60 min hops. WHOOPS! Yes, that happened. I realized it immediately. O'well, s*$t happens.
All that said, my main issue is with (as the title says) my SG was 1.042?? WTF?? This thing was supposed to be 1.052. That's a big drop IMO. To be fair, I did what the app said and added all the water to start and did not sparge. I was supposed to have 5.5 gal in the fermenter and ended up with ~5.8 according to the lines in the Spike Flex+
I figured that would lower the SG but 10 points? I admit I have never hit expected SG with extracts but I have never been this low. Other than double checking the volume at the end of the boil, what else do I should I be looking at to hit the SG? Am I even use SG correct?