Josh_Saratin
Apprentice
Hello Everyone,
A quick little description of what I am trying to understand: I found a recipe online for a Citra Pale Ale (http://homebrewacademy.com/citra-pale-ale/) in which I made into a DME recipe before I switched to all grain and turned out really good. I am now doing this on my all grain system. I planned this brew into BS2, the recipe exp OG is 1.056 and final is 1.011 to get ABV of 5.9% is definitely very different than what I think it should be in BS2. I have scaled this to 15 gallons as in the attached BS recipe... I am operating at about a 70% BH efficiency (based on my last hefeweizen 12 gallon batch). So, because of this I had to adjust the OG with the BS tool to acheive 1.056 which added more grain of course. I am trying to Mash at the recommended 154F... and when I set this to my mash profile for the brew, the final gravity increases from 1.014 to 1.015 which is already way higher than is should be... This bring the abv to 5.4 from 5.6% rather than achieving 5.9% at the same mash temperature of 154? So, in summary. I would like to keep my OG the same, decrease my FG to around 1.012 without adjusting the mash temperature to ensure it has decent body and mouth feel. Please let me know what you all think or would like me to try to explain something more. Thanks in advance to anyone who comes up with an opinion on this...
A quick little description of what I am trying to understand: I found a recipe online for a Citra Pale Ale (http://homebrewacademy.com/citra-pale-ale/) in which I made into a DME recipe before I switched to all grain and turned out really good. I am now doing this on my all grain system. I planned this brew into BS2, the recipe exp OG is 1.056 and final is 1.011 to get ABV of 5.9% is definitely very different than what I think it should be in BS2. I have scaled this to 15 gallons as in the attached BS recipe... I am operating at about a 70% BH efficiency (based on my last hefeweizen 12 gallon batch). So, because of this I had to adjust the OG with the BS tool to acheive 1.056 which added more grain of course. I am trying to Mash at the recommended 154F... and when I set this to my mash profile for the brew, the final gravity increases from 1.014 to 1.015 which is already way higher than is should be... This bring the abv to 5.4 from 5.6% rather than achieving 5.9% at the same mash temperature of 154? So, in summary. I would like to keep my OG the same, decrease my FG to around 1.012 without adjusting the mash temperature to ensure it has decent body and mouth feel. Please let me know what you all think or would like me to try to explain something more. Thanks in advance to anyone who comes up with an opinion on this...