Jaustink83
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This is my first brew, I know I probably should have started with something a bit less crazy but I gave this a shot: BCS Clone
Everything seemed to go well durring the brew, no surprises. I'll list what I did below, however when I took an OG with my hydrometer it was only 1.048 no where even close to the target OG of 1.135.
What might I have done wrong?
Steps
- 2.5 gallons tap water in kettle (clean chicago water, nothing gross or tainted)
- Added the grains in muslin bag to the water.
- Brought it up to 170F and immediately cut the heat
- Left the grains in for 15 mins, drained (no sqeezing)
- Brought to boil, removed from heat added 3.3 lbs LME and 5lbs DME, stirring vigorously to prevent scorching and clumping.
- Returned to decent boil and started 60min timer. Maintained decent rolling boil throughout the 60mins.
-Added 1oz millenium hops @60 and 1oz again at 45
-Added wort chiller @10
-Added 1/2 tab whifloc @ 5
- At flame out removed kettle from heat and added 5lbs DME stirring vigorously to prevent clumping.
- Cooled to 75F using wort chiller and racked to fermenting bucket w auto syphon.
- Topped off w chilled spring water to 5 gallons.
- Shook bucket for 4-5 mins to combine and aerate.
- Took sample and tested OG.
- Added yeast to fermenter and added bung and airlock.
I skipped all the cleaning and sanitizing steps but I did sanitize everything that touched the wort after the boil was complete w starsan.
OG Testing temp was 67F.
With 10lbs DME and 3.3lbs LME i don't understand how my OG can be this low.
Thanks in advance for any advise.
Everything seemed to go well durring the brew, no surprises. I'll list what I did below, however when I took an OG with my hydrometer it was only 1.048 no where even close to the target OG of 1.135.
What might I have done wrong?
Steps
- 2.5 gallons tap water in kettle (clean chicago water, nothing gross or tainted)
- Added the grains in muslin bag to the water.
- Brought it up to 170F and immediately cut the heat
- Left the grains in for 15 mins, drained (no sqeezing)
- Brought to boil, removed from heat added 3.3 lbs LME and 5lbs DME, stirring vigorously to prevent scorching and clumping.
- Returned to decent boil and started 60min timer. Maintained decent rolling boil throughout the 60mins.
-Added 1oz millenium hops @60 and 1oz again at 45
-Added wort chiller @10
-Added 1/2 tab whifloc @ 5
- At flame out removed kettle from heat and added 5lbs DME stirring vigorously to prevent clumping.
- Cooled to 75F using wort chiller and racked to fermenting bucket w auto syphon.
- Topped off w chilled spring water to 5 gallons.
- Shook bucket for 4-5 mins to combine and aerate.
- Took sample and tested OG.
- Added yeast to fermenter and added bung and airlock.
I skipped all the cleaning and sanitizing steps but I did sanitize everything that touched the wort after the boil was complete w starsan.
OG Testing temp was 67F.
With 10lbs DME and 3.3lbs LME i don't understand how my OG can be this low.
Thanks in advance for any advise.