crazymoyo
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Hello fellas, I hope you are doing great!
Am new to homebewtalk and am looking to some advice to what am doing wrong
I brewing for the last year mostly Pale Ales and IPA, also tried once Neipa.
Am facing an issue where my beers turn out having low abs, approx 2.5-3.5% where they supposed to be around 5.5-6.5%. I found couple of recipes I liked and I experiment with them since I believe homebrewing it's all about experimenting and producing great beer
Brewing Sofrware: Brewfather
My brewing equipment: Brewmonk 30L
Batch size: 28L
Fermentable 7.2Kg
3.2Kg Pale Ale (Ireks)
2.5lg Pilsner (Ireks)
500g Vienna (Weyermann)
40g Carapils (Weyermann)
40g Carared (Weyermann)
200g Caramunich I (Weyermann)
Hops 225g
25g Amarillo 60 Mins / Boil
15g El Dorado 30 Mins / Boil
15g El Dorado 15 Mins / Boil
10g El Dorado 5 Mins / Boil
60g Mosaic 30 Mins / Hopstand @ 80c
65g Amarillo Day 7 - Dry Hop
35g El Dorado Day 7 - Dry Hop
Misc
3g Calsium Chloride / Mash
4.5g Gyprusm / Mash
1 Protafloc / 15 mins / Boil
Yeast
2 x Fermentis US-05 (22g)
Ferment for 14 days @ 20c
Mashing Profile
60mins @ 65c
10mins @ 75c Mash out
Water
25.18L Mash water
15.53L Sparge water
Brewfather calculates the the beer should have a:
Estimated Final Gravity:1.011
Apparent Attenuation: 79.9%
Alcohol by volume: 6%
My actual reading are below:
PreBoil Gravity: 16.7Brix
Specific Gravity: 1.0685
Potential Alcohol By Volume: 9.3%
Original Gravity: 12.2Brix
Specific Gravity: 1.0492
Potential Alcohol By Volume: 6.5%
Final Gravity: 7.2
Specific Gravity: 1.0285
Potential Alcohol By Volume: 2.72%
As you can see 2.72 is nowhere near 6%
Am using a Brix refractometer.
Am I doing something really wrong here? Do I need more grains or should I mash for more time?
Looking forward to your thoughts
Thanks in advance
Am new to homebewtalk and am looking to some advice to what am doing wrong
I brewing for the last year mostly Pale Ales and IPA, also tried once Neipa.
Am facing an issue where my beers turn out having low abs, approx 2.5-3.5% where they supposed to be around 5.5-6.5%. I found couple of recipes I liked and I experiment with them since I believe homebrewing it's all about experimenting and producing great beer
Brewing Sofrware: Brewfather
My brewing equipment: Brewmonk 30L
Batch size: 28L
Fermentable 7.2Kg
3.2Kg Pale Ale (Ireks)
2.5lg Pilsner (Ireks)
500g Vienna (Weyermann)
40g Carapils (Weyermann)
40g Carared (Weyermann)
200g Caramunich I (Weyermann)
Hops 225g
25g Amarillo 60 Mins / Boil
15g El Dorado 30 Mins / Boil
15g El Dorado 15 Mins / Boil
10g El Dorado 5 Mins / Boil
60g Mosaic 30 Mins / Hopstand @ 80c
65g Amarillo Day 7 - Dry Hop
35g El Dorado Day 7 - Dry Hop
Misc
3g Calsium Chloride / Mash
4.5g Gyprusm / Mash
1 Protafloc / 15 mins / Boil
Yeast
2 x Fermentis US-05 (22g)
Ferment for 14 days @ 20c
Mashing Profile
60mins @ 65c
10mins @ 75c Mash out
Water
25.18L Mash water
15.53L Sparge water
Brewfather calculates the the beer should have a:
Estimated Final Gravity:1.011
Apparent Attenuation: 79.9%
Alcohol by volume: 6%
My actual reading are below:
PreBoil Gravity: 16.7Brix
Specific Gravity: 1.0685
Potential Alcohol By Volume: 9.3%
Original Gravity: 12.2Brix
Specific Gravity: 1.0492
Potential Alcohol By Volume: 6.5%
Final Gravity: 7.2
Specific Gravity: 1.0285
Potential Alcohol By Volume: 2.72%
As you can see 2.72 is nowhere near 6%
Am using a Brix refractometer.
Am I doing something really wrong here? Do I need more grains or should I mash for more time?
Looking forward to your thoughts
Thanks in advance