Tried a Toucan this week:
Liquid Malt:
1 x Morgan's Caramalt (1.5kg)
1 x Morgan's PME (1.5kg)
Boiled for an hour with:
Hops:
30g Perle Hops (45mins)
30g East Kent Goldings (10mins)
Extras:
300g Crystal Malt - steeped for one hour, added prior to yeast.
Yeast:
Safale @04
Total to 23 litres with water added.
Threw this all in and after 5 days, seems like the ferment has tailed off as per normal with the Safale.
Original Gravity = 1031
Final Gravity (now) = 1016
Gives me a feeble ABV of just 1.93% :/
Am I not putting enough fermentables in at the outset? Should I be aiming for using less liquid than 23 litres, or putting more malt in?
Have already bottled one very similar and it tastes watery and has an unknown chemical tang to boot but put it down to a bad batch.
Going to be gutted if this one is coming out similar. Any ideas? It's still in the Primary for now, I've only just taken my Final Gravity Reading.
Getting desperate to nail a Toucan recipe for an English Bitter with plenty of hops that I can call a banker, still searching.
Liquid Malt:
1 x Morgan's Caramalt (1.5kg)
1 x Morgan's PME (1.5kg)
Boiled for an hour with:
Hops:
30g Perle Hops (45mins)
30g East Kent Goldings (10mins)
Extras:
300g Crystal Malt - steeped for one hour, added prior to yeast.
Yeast:
Safale @04
Total to 23 litres with water added.
Threw this all in and after 5 days, seems like the ferment has tailed off as per normal with the Safale.
Original Gravity = 1031
Final Gravity (now) = 1016
Gives me a feeble ABV of just 1.93% :/
Am I not putting enough fermentables in at the outset? Should I be aiming for using less liquid than 23 litres, or putting more malt in?
Have already bottled one very similar and it tastes watery and has an unknown chemical tang to boot but put it down to a bad batch.
Going to be gutted if this one is coming out similar. Any ideas? It's still in the Primary for now, I've only just taken my Final Gravity Reading.
Getting desperate to nail a Toucan recipe for an English Bitter with plenty of hops that I can call a banker, still searching.