So, last night I whipped up another brew:
1.7kg Coopers Draught Extract
1.5kg light liquid malt extract
20g Cascade pellets
(will add 10-15g Chinook a couple of days in)
Made up to 22 litres.
Added safale yeast once it had cooled down and took an SG reading of... 1.078.
That seemed a bit crazy so I waited for a bit for the sample to settle down. No change in SG.
I took another reading (from a new sample) this morning (~12 hours after previous reading) and got 1.056.
Beer Smith estimated an OG of around 1.050 (assuming I entered it all right).
Would the high reading from last night just be due to the beer having not settled down when I took the sample? And would you say 1.056 would be a fair measurement for the OG (I'd like to have a reasonable idea of the %abv)?
Cheers
1.7kg Coopers Draught Extract
1.5kg light liquid malt extract
20g Cascade pellets
(will add 10-15g Chinook a couple of days in)
Made up to 22 litres.
Added safale yeast once it had cooled down and took an SG reading of... 1.078.
That seemed a bit crazy so I waited for a bit for the sample to settle down. No change in SG.
I took another reading (from a new sample) this morning (~12 hours after previous reading) and got 1.056.
Beer Smith estimated an OG of around 1.050 (assuming I entered it all right).
Would the high reading from last night just be due to the beer having not settled down when I took the sample? And would you say 1.056 would be a fair measurement for the OG (I'd like to have a reasonable idea of the %abv)?
Cheers