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Hey All! I'm so grateful to the community here, as well as the tools of BF.
I'm making my second beer, an ESB I'm calling "Wizard Ale" after the very funny Worthikids video (link) of the same name. The guys at my brewing shop put together a DME "kit" of sorts based on the "Programmer's Elbow" recipe from "Brewing Classic Styles". The book recipe OG said 1.056 FG 1.015, ABV 5.4%. When I put my actual ingredients into BF's recipe generator (as it differed ever so slightly) it predicted a OG 1.066, FG 1.017, ABV 6.5%. Okay, no big deal.
I brewed, and foolishly didn't take a hydrometer reading myself because I had just brought home my BRAND NEW TILT. So exciting. However, my actual (calibrated) OG was 1.063. Not bad. I let biology take its course and watched the gravity fall lower, lower, lower. Right now I'm 6 days in and by my estimation and data fermentation concluded on day 3 @ FG: 1.006. Woah. ABV is calculating at 7.5%.
Two questions:
1. What happened here? Is it a problem?
2. If I am "at" my target FG (either in recipe or in BF) should I pull the plug (metaphorically speaking) and bottle right then? Or should I just let it go the two weeks my first kit (Northern Brewer) told me to go? Everything had precipitated out on the second day and while there were still some CO2 bubbles in the airlock most of the activity had stopped.
Attached is my temp + SG + pH / time graph. There is a temp spike due to me being overzealous with my heating pad + inkbird + blankets (it was 0 degrees in my basement last time I brewed, and I probably overcorrected for this brew but the spike never got over the recommended temp for the yeast). Any help or answers to the two questions would be great!
Thank you!
I'm making my second beer, an ESB I'm calling "Wizard Ale" after the very funny Worthikids video (link) of the same name. The guys at my brewing shop put together a DME "kit" of sorts based on the "Programmer's Elbow" recipe from "Brewing Classic Styles". The book recipe OG said 1.056 FG 1.015, ABV 5.4%. When I put my actual ingredients into BF's recipe generator (as it differed ever so slightly) it predicted a OG 1.066, FG 1.017, ABV 6.5%. Okay, no big deal.
I brewed, and foolishly didn't take a hydrometer reading myself because I had just brought home my BRAND NEW TILT. So exciting. However, my actual (calibrated) OG was 1.063. Not bad. I let biology take its course and watched the gravity fall lower, lower, lower. Right now I'm 6 days in and by my estimation and data fermentation concluded on day 3 @ FG: 1.006. Woah. ABV is calculating at 7.5%.
Two questions:
1. What happened here? Is it a problem?
2. If I am "at" my target FG (either in recipe or in BF) should I pull the plug (metaphorically speaking) and bottle right then? Or should I just let it go the two weeks my first kit (Northern Brewer) told me to go? Everything had precipitated out on the second day and while there were still some CO2 bubbles in the airlock most of the activity had stopped.
Attached is my temp + SG + pH / time graph. There is a temp spike due to me being overzealous with my heating pad + inkbird + blankets (it was 0 degrees in my basement last time I brewed, and I probably overcorrected for this brew but the spike never got over the recommended temp for the yeast). Any help or answers to the two questions would be great!
Thank you!