Thank you for the response. Lesson learned about the boil volume. This kit was supposed to be 9% abv. I used two packs of US-05 yeast. Any guesstimate on where it will end up?
My buddy and I brewed a peanut butter cup stout kit today from Northern Brewer. I was concerned about not having enough preboil volume so we used all of the 4.5 gallons of sparge water and ended up with 7.75 gal into the kettle. After the boil we were left with 6.5 gal. The OG for the recipe is...
Thank you for the link. Using the chart on this link to convert the SG readings from the refractometer to Brix:
https://www.winning-homebrew.com/specific-gravity-to-brix.html
It looks like I'm ok with the corrected numbers?
I brewed a West Coast IPA on Labor Day (9/2). Pitched two packages of Omega West Coast Ale (OYL-004) yeast at 70*. Original gravity was 1.067, final gravity is supposed to be at 1.016 according to the recipe. The brewing bucket has been in a kegerator turned fermentation chamber with the...