arborman
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I am planning on doing a second take of a Moose Drool clone tomorrow. The first one I did was an extract from Northern, and my first Home Brew in 20 years. It turned out pretty terrible! This is going to be a revenge batch, in all grain, and based off the Jamil Show, "can you brew it".
I am using beersmith to enter the recipe in exactly as they gave out on the show (which they determined cloned), but I am coming up off on my end numbers a bit. Specifically, I am ending high on my FG and low on my ABV.
Recipe as given is as follows:
6 gal batch
10.8 lbs 2 row
5.5 oz choc malt
1.25 lbs crystal 75/80
1/2 oz black patent
40 grams East Kent Goldings 60 min. 4.75aa
17 grams willamette 10 min
17 grams liberty 0 min
WL002 English Ale yeast (made a 1 liter starter with freshly harvested yeast)
154 mash
IBU's around 30
OG 1.052
I should be hitting 5.2 ABV and a FG of 1.012, but beersmith is putting me at 4.6 ABV with a FG of 1.017.
Not sure what I should do here, if anything....
Options I have thought about would be:
Up my grain bill to a higher OG?
Lower my Mash?
If I use a different yeast (WL001) I could get higher attenuation and hit my numbers perfectly.... but, I don't want to sacrifice the flavor of the beer I am trying to hit.
If I remove my yeast from the recipe, my recipe estimates are nearly perfect: Hitting 5.2 ABV with a FG of 1.013.
What do you guys think I should do here? I want to nail this brew!
I am using beersmith to enter the recipe in exactly as they gave out on the show (which they determined cloned), but I am coming up off on my end numbers a bit. Specifically, I am ending high on my FG and low on my ABV.
Recipe as given is as follows:
6 gal batch
10.8 lbs 2 row
5.5 oz choc malt
1.25 lbs crystal 75/80
1/2 oz black patent
40 grams East Kent Goldings 60 min. 4.75aa
17 grams willamette 10 min
17 grams liberty 0 min
WL002 English Ale yeast (made a 1 liter starter with freshly harvested yeast)
154 mash
IBU's around 30
OG 1.052
I should be hitting 5.2 ABV and a FG of 1.012, but beersmith is putting me at 4.6 ABV with a FG of 1.017.
Not sure what I should do here, if anything....
Options I have thought about would be:
Up my grain bill to a higher OG?
Lower my Mash?
If I use a different yeast (WL001) I could get higher attenuation and hit my numbers perfectly.... but, I don't want to sacrifice the flavor of the beer I am trying to hit.
If I remove my yeast from the recipe, my recipe estimates are nearly perfect: Hitting 5.2 ABV with a FG of 1.013.
What do you guys think I should do here? I want to nail this brew!