Little Creatures Plae Ale. 10.1%!

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comes back to the old text/connotation thing doesnt it! its all good fingers!

ok.. let me rephrase my question!

how can i ever, in the entire history of beer making, regardless of me maybe/maybe not mixing my brew properly, or grav mesurments that may or may not have had wort in it, get a mix to go that high?

 

[tallie]

There's the small possibility is that your hydrometer is (that far) out of whack; but I tend to agree with the others that it most probably wasn't a representative sample of wort. You can check your hydrometer by mixing up a known sugar solution and seeing if the reading corresponds.

Cheers,
tallie.

 

[Budron]

By the looks of your thread name, your accustomed to the odd mistake.

 

[Braumoasta]

comes back to the old text/connotation thing doesnt it! its all good fingers!

ok.. let me rephrase my question!

how can i ever, in the entire history of beer making, regardless of me maybe/maybe not mixing my brew properly, or grav mesurments that may or may not have had wort in it, get a mix to go that high?

:blink:

 

[Ross]

Beerbelly84...

The guys were just pointing out you have either read the scale wrongly or the sample wasn't properly mixed. Highly likely it's the later, as no amount of stiring will remove syrup that's spread into the tap cavity & hence the high gravity.

Cheers Ross

 

[big78sam]

My bet is some extract was still in the tap housing before and after stirring. When you poured your hydro sample you washed out the extract thus giving you an impossible reading.

Cheers

This is my guess. Did you put the tin if goop in first, then add the water? If so then you've added the kit and then by the time the level reaches the tap you've only added 3 litres or so of water. Therefore the tap is likely filled with a really really high SG wort. If you then mix the batch well the high SG wort is still mostly sitting in the tap. You should always throw away the first little bit of wort you get from the tap when measuring the OG. The little bit of wort in the tap will increase your SG reading.

 

[Pennywise]

As said before, add less water, or more fermentables, or both. I've found This to be a good calculator when using generic kits & yeast

 

[loikar]

comes back to the old text/connotation thing doesnt it! its all good fingers!

ok.. let me rephrase my question!

how can i ever, in the entire history of beer making, regardless of me maybe/maybe not mixing my brew properly, or grav mesurments that may or may not have had wort in it, get a mix to go that high?

1, You have too much ingriedents in your recipe
2, You do not have enough water in your recipe
3, Your hydrometer is possesd and likes fkng with your head
4, You are dyslexic and confused 1083 with 1038
5, You are clinicly insane
6, You are blind and are feeling your screen for braile bumps

 

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what it comes down to is learning! thats why questions are asked, things taken from the answers, and used! i may have to make sure that i clean the tap, or pour my goop in a different manner! and throw out the first hydro, to clean out the tap!

nothing iv said was ment to be taken in the wrong manner, and all replies have been taken into consideration,


cheers fellas!

 

[bignath]

Another thing i thought of when i read this thread, was are there many available yeasts that would attenuate that high to produce an ABV like that?

I know most of my beers start around 1.052 or thereabouts and get down to 1006 which i think off the top of my head (no records in front of me) equates to about 82-86% attenuation....

What the hell would 1.080+ give you i wonder, and is it possible?

 

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Another thing i thought of when i read this thread, was are there many available yeasts that would attenuate that high to produce an ABV like that?

I know most of my beers start around 1.052 or thereabouts and get down to 1006 which i think off the top of my head (no records in front of me) equates to about 82-86% attenuation....

What the hell would 1.080+ give you i wonder, and is it possible?

or coould two yeast packets do the job?

 

[loikar]

what it comes down to is learning! thats why questions are asked, things taken from the answers, and used! i may have to make sure that i clean the tap, or pour my goop in a different manner! and throw out the first hydro, to clean out the tap!

nothing iv said was ment to be taken in the wrong manner, and all replies have been taken into consideration,


cheers fellas!

Agreed mate,
And don't take this the wrong way, but to pose a question, and then reject all answers that point to you fkng up is just arrogant.

Happy brewing

 

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Agreed mate,
And don't take this the wrong way, but to pose a question, and then reject all answers that point to you fkng up is just arrogant.

Happy brewing

i like the david kopperfeild post better!

 

[mje1980]

Another thing i thought of when i read this thread, was are there many available yeasts that would attenuate that high to produce an ABV like that?

I know most of my beers start around 1.052 or thereabouts and get down to 1006 which i think off the top of my head (no records in front of me) equates to about 82-86% attenuation....

What the hell would 1.080+ give you i wonder, and is it possible?

I just bottled a 1.078 porter, which came down to 1.016.

 

[yum beer]

Just ouf of interest does it taste any good?

 

[mje1980]

Just ouf of interest does it taste any good?

This aimed at me? If so, im very happy with it, and i struggle to see it lasting to 3 months in the bottle.

 

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if its aimed at me, iv only just bottle it inside a week ago......... the hydro tasted good and was warm and fuzzy.....

 

[enuun]

U wana test our ur hydro?
I am sure if u used distilled water it will read 1.000
worth checking it out.

happy brewing my friend

 

[Impy]

comes back to the old text/connotation thing doesnt it! its all good fingers!

ok.. let me rephrase my question!

how can i ever, in the entire history of beer making, regardless of me maybe/maybe not mixing my brew properly, or grav mesurments that may or may not have had wort in it, get a mix to go that high?

The only way to get a mix that high is to have added too much sugar, or not enough water (ignoring insufficient mixing or goop in your tap)

You might be thinking that there might be something "wrong" with the tin of goop you got, but it's simply impossible for that quantity of goop to give such a hugely different gravity. The tin simply does not have enough volume to contain enough sugar to push the gravity that high. It could be a single solid sugar crystal and it still wouldn't be enough sugar to create a gravity reading that high.

With this knowledge you can understand why some people are insisting that you didn't mix it properly (or had goop stuck in your tap which would be hard to get out with mixing)

It's either that or you added WAAAAAAY too much sugar.

 

[pcmfisher]

Was there enough of the sample in your hydrometer tube to make the hydrometer float?