Need A Quick Answer Please!

[kc_ksom]

G'day lads

I have just put a brew down with 2.5kg of LME, boiled for 1hr 15min, with Perle pellets - %6 for 1:15, then Hallertau 10 grm at %2.5, for 1hr, and the Cascade 15g at around %5 for 15m. Topped up the water in carboy to 22ltrs..

BUT HAVE ONLY 1034 GRAVITY..

I worked this out to be around 3.5 alcahol..

I wanted more... If I just add some dextrose or coopers brew enhancer will that help me, and could you give me an Idea on how much TO USE, I want to get the % up some more (at least %4.5), this brew has just been airlocked in the last 15 minutes, the time now is 3.06 pm.

HELP


Thanks


Casey...

P.S.
Smells great....

 

[Scotty]

Yes its fine, make sure its dissolved

 

[Stuster]

As Scotty says, it should be fine. Just stir it up a bit and test again. Promash says you should have an OG of 1044 which should give you about 4.5% alcohol. Get the promash demo version and have a play maybe. Or beersmith evaluation one.

 

[kc_ksom]

Stuster

I have the promash demo, I couldn't see how it works as yet, I gather the fg will be around 1010 or there abouts as most malt beers end there, though I have not done any brew that starts at 1034.

Im still unsure on how much dex or brew enhancer in, any ideas...

Casey

 

[pint of lager]

What volume did you boil, and what volume did you leave with the hops and trub?

If you only boiled 10 litres, then lost a litre to trub, then you have lost 10% of your sg. This is assuming that the volume is still 10 litres, usually, starting with 10 litres, you lose a litre or so to evaporation, this leaves 9 litres, then you lose a litre to trub and correspondingly lose more of your sg.

As the others have said, restir, take another sg reading.

If it is still too low, run a few litres out into a saucepan, add some more malt and/or dextrose, dissolve the malt, reboil, chill and add back to boiler.

 

[NRB]

As Scotty says, it should be fine. Just stir it up a bit and test again. Promash says you should have an OG of 1044 which should give you about 4.5% alcohol.

Actually, Promash gives OG 1.036 so it seems correct.

If you want to increase alcohol, you'll want to obviously increase the fermentables. This can be achieved with either dextrose or LME/DME. What ingredients and how much of each do you have on hand?

 

[kc_ksom]

Thanks for this fellas

I started with a boil volume of 6ltr, I boiled 1.5kg of the LME, I then added them other 1kg at flame out, which aided the cooling, I then put the pot in ice cold water and added ice to wort, the temp came down fairly fast.
from there I added the rest of the water up to 22ltrs.

I only have a 10ltr pot, so that was the best I could do.

Pitched yeast at 24, added a wet towel, temp will come down to around 20 22, which I am happy with.

Thanks for this guys.


Im still unsure on how much extra to add is all..

Casey

 

[pint of lager]

You have used 2.5 kg fermentables to get to 1.034 (did you double check the sg reading?) To get to 1.050, you are going to need around 1 to 1.2 kg fermentables extra.

This is worked out by 2.5/34 x 50 = 3.68

Use a combination of dextrose and LME or DME.

 

[PostModern]

Casey,
What you've done sounds fine. Letting the fermentation start at a lower OG then adding fermentables is something that brewers often do when brewing higher gravity beers. Add the extra malt as PoL has suggested and the beer should be fine.

 

[kc_ksom]

Well thanks fellas

I ended up putting 900grm of Brewiser brewing sugar, seemed easy enough, put it in and stir, lol.
Hopefully this will work ok.

Just wished I hadnt of put so much water in. I reckon I should of put 19ltr in in stead. see how it goes, maybe next time, as this is my 1st attempt of a none Hopped kit.

I love the colour it has gone. If you could imagine 500g of dark LME 2 kg of light LME.

Thanks

Casey

 

[Stuster]

Sorry for the calc error kc. Thanks for picking that up NRB. Put in DME instead of LME.