Hello everyone,
Brewing an Extract batch for the first time in fifteen years, I have a couple of questions.
This one is more along the lines of curiosity then a question. The recipe states that the Estimated OG should be between 1.053 and 1.057 I ended up at 1.070. I know this leads to a lot of other questions but here is the deal. 5 gal full boil, started with 6 gal of water, steeped the grains as called for, brought to a boil and added the 8 lbs of Extract, boiled for 60 min, cooled to 70 degrees and transferred to my carboy, ended up with 4.5 gal of wort. So I am thinking I should have started with 6.5 gal of water. So I guess I do have a question, do you think that lacking the .5 gal of wort would have changed the OG that much?
OK now for the real question: I have a 5 gal carboy and I knew from the past that I needed to have a blow tube, and I did but now that my fermentation has slowed from the high krausen state to just bubbles should I change my blow off tube to an air lock or just wait for a few days and change it when I transfer to a secondary.
Tim
Brewing an Extract batch for the first time in fifteen years, I have a couple of questions.
This one is more along the lines of curiosity then a question. The recipe states that the Estimated OG should be between 1.053 and 1.057 I ended up at 1.070. I know this leads to a lot of other questions but here is the deal. 5 gal full boil, started with 6 gal of water, steeped the grains as called for, brought to a boil and added the 8 lbs of Extract, boiled for 60 min, cooled to 70 degrees and transferred to my carboy, ended up with 4.5 gal of wort. So I am thinking I should have started with 6.5 gal of water. So I guess I do have a question, do you think that lacking the .5 gal of wort would have changed the OG that much?
OK now for the real question: I have a 5 gal carboy and I knew from the past that I needed to have a blow tube, and I did but now that my fermentation has slowed from the high krausen state to just bubbles should I change my blow off tube to an air lock or just wait for a few days and change it when I transfer to a secondary.
Tim