Aces High
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Been lurking a while and have made my first screw up, so now comes my first post also
I was playing around with the kit & extract designer I found on here.. what an awsome tool to get your head around how things change your beers charastics.
The old adage of a little bit of knowledge is dangerous fits here pretty well. I thought i'd come up with a good pilsner recipe by playing around with LME, DME & grains, but it wasn't till after I finished and read a little more about carapils did i realise that I've used way too much.
I put 1kg in for a 23L batch. I adjusted everything else to match so the SG & OD looked right, but from what I can tell the carapils doesn't have any diastatic power and is going to make a lot of unfermentables and also leave a lot of starch in the beer. Ive converted grains for distilling before and I knew something wasn't right when i was doing it
I finished making the wort and the SG was 1045 and its fementing away ok
Can someone have a guess at what will happen and whether I can save it or just need to chuck it and start again
cheers
I was playing around with the kit & extract designer I found on here.. what an awsome tool to get your head around how things change your beers charastics.
The old adage of a little bit of knowledge is dangerous fits here pretty well. I thought i'd come up with a good pilsner recipe by playing around with LME, DME & grains, but it wasn't till after I finished and read a little more about carapils did i realise that I've used way too much.
I put 1kg in for a 23L batch. I adjusted everything else to match so the SG & OD looked right, but from what I can tell the carapils doesn't have any diastatic power and is going to make a lot of unfermentables and also leave a lot of starch in the beer. Ive converted grains for distilling before and I knew something wasn't right when i was doing it
I finished making the wort and the SG was 1045 and its fementing away ok
Can someone have a guess at what will happen and whether I can save it or just need to chuck it and start again
cheers