So I thought I'd brew the same recipe Citra Pale as I done a few months ago as I was really pleased with it and figured it would be a good brew to enter for the November forum competition. I used exactly the same recipe, grains were pretty fresh and the brew day went without hitch but for some reason I only hit an OG of 1.040 instead of 1.048! I have no idea what went wrong although I did notice that the sparge went ridiculously quickly...this has happened once before and I was under target that time too although not by so much! I really need to try and understand why this happened as I've been missing targets much more often recently when I used to hit them spot on, my only three theories are:
1 - The grain isn't fresh even tho it was only delivered last week
2 - The crush of the grain isn't suitable for the grainfather
3 - I've cocked up the mash water ratio
I've ruled out over dilution as I've got roughly the same in the fermenter as I usually do.
Assuming I hit the predicted FG I should end up with something around 4% so as long as the balance isn't too out of whack it should still end up being a decent beer, it certainly smelt nice enough in the trial jar.
Original recipe/brew details here: http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=63352
1 - The grain isn't fresh even tho it was only delivered last week
2 - The crush of the grain isn't suitable for the grainfather
3 - I've cocked up the mash water ratio
I've ruled out over dilution as I've got roughly the same in the fermenter as I usually do.
Assuming I hit the predicted FG I should end up with something around 4% so as long as the balance isn't too out of whack it should still end up being a decent beer, it certainly smelt nice enough in the trial jar.
Original recipe/brew details here: http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=63352
