Hey folks,
First off, great forum. I've been reading a bunch of the posts, and while most of it confuses me, there's some awesome help here. I thought I might take advantage of that to see what you guys would recommend I do with my first brew.
I started Brewferm Old Bruin kit (link at the bottom in case it helps) 14 days ago. I think from what I've read on here I must have either messed up the sugar or the amount of water for the first fermentation. My guess is sugar. Kit says it's supposed to be 1060, mine was 1036. Didn't know what that meant at the time so I just ran with it.
Brew is in a 25l bin with an airlock (everything sanitised etc. as best I can figure) in my spare room, so ~20oC. Kit also suggests 10 days for first fermentation. So after 10 days I took a hyrdometer reading, came out at 1015. Kit say FG should be 1010, so I left it 2 days. Day 12, 1015. Day 13, 1015. Today, 1015.
So I have two questions;
1) Using the ABV calculator I found on here, that comes out at 2.76% which sounds very weak for this beer. Is there any way to increase or improve that? I'm not that concerned about the ABV, just a tasty beer would be good.
2) Should I go ahead and bottle anyway at 1015? I see a number of people saying they don't quite get to the FG noted, but this seems quite a bit off. Something to do with my mistake at the start (assuming I did mess up the sugar)?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Also, siphoning is messy work. I think I need to figure out what people are using 'cause I need another hand to hold siphon in bin and operate the little valve on the end of mine!
Thanks,
Baps.
https://www.biggerjugs.co.uk/collec...oducts/brewferm-old-bruin-dark-brown-2-6-gall
First off, great forum. I've been reading a bunch of the posts, and while most of it confuses me, there's some awesome help here. I thought I might take advantage of that to see what you guys would recommend I do with my first brew.
I started Brewferm Old Bruin kit (link at the bottom in case it helps) 14 days ago. I think from what I've read on here I must have either messed up the sugar or the amount of water for the first fermentation. My guess is sugar. Kit says it's supposed to be 1060, mine was 1036. Didn't know what that meant at the time so I just ran with it.
Brew is in a 25l bin with an airlock (everything sanitised etc. as best I can figure) in my spare room, so ~20oC. Kit also suggests 10 days for first fermentation. So after 10 days I took a hyrdometer reading, came out at 1015. Kit say FG should be 1010, so I left it 2 days. Day 12, 1015. Day 13, 1015. Today, 1015.
So I have two questions;
1) Using the ABV calculator I found on here, that comes out at 2.76% which sounds very weak for this beer. Is there any way to increase or improve that? I'm not that concerned about the ABV, just a tasty beer would be good.
2) Should I go ahead and bottle anyway at 1015? I see a number of people saying they don't quite get to the FG noted, but this seems quite a bit off. Something to do with my mistake at the start (assuming I did mess up the sugar)?
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Also, siphoning is messy work. I think I need to figure out what people are using 'cause I need another hand to hold siphon in bin and operate the little valve on the end of mine!
Thanks,
Baps.
https://www.biggerjugs.co.uk/collec...oducts/brewferm-old-bruin-dark-brown-2-6-gall