Cold brew...

[Griffster77]

Due to extreme child related lack of sleep, i just had a conplete brain fart and made up a kit beer using cold water. God knows what will happen now...

 

[Clint]

It will turn into beer.....

 

[Barley Rubble]

It will turn into beer.....

 

[Griffster77]

Well yes i guess so! Not sure what it will be like tho.

 

[bazzac]

Will it not just take longer to get started? I would have thought. Then turn into beer!

 

[Gerryjo]

The only difference is hot and cold water and providing you have stirred it well it will be fine.... Pay no heed to the comedy squad they're like children giggling behind the door

 

[Clint]

I was deadly serious....I don't have an ounce of humour in me ..

 

[Griffster77]

Its certainly bubbling away so fingers crossed. The SG was low but i dont mind a low alcohol for this one

 

[Barley Rubble]

The SG was low

How low exactly?

 

[Deadhead]

I’m assuming it’s a kit, so it will be fine! Made all my kits (when I started) with cold water, except to get the last bits out of the can. I drank them when they turned into beer

 

[Barley Rubble]

I drank them when they turned into beer

Which oddly enough, they inevitably do!

 

[Griffster77]

How low exactly?

Not got my notes with me but 1020 i think

 

[obscure]

Not got my notes with me but 1020 i think

I suspect that this is due to the malt extract being stuck at the bottom of the bucket, hopefully over time it will disperse within the liquid and be fermented worth keying in the volume of malt extract and any other additions I.e. sugar into brewers friend or similar to get the OG.

 

[Griffster77]

Hmmmm 7 days later, its managed to go to 1010. 1.3% alcohol.

Any ideas what i can do?

 

[user 18729]

What was the OG? 1010 is about right for most beers

 

[ChrisM]

Hmmmm 7 days later, its managed to go to 1010. 1.3% alcohol.

Any ideas what i can do?

Pour as much as you can into a second fermenting bucket and see if you have a wodge of thick liquid extract in the bottom? Dissolve in a couple of litres of hot water, allow to cool and reunite with the rest of the wort. I'd wait to hear what the more knowledgable folk on this forum say though!

 

[Griffster77]

What was the OG? 1010 is about right for most beers

1020 as i say earlier!

 

[honeymonster]

I'd put money on your OG of 1020 being false due to the kit not mixing properly in the cold water.

If all the sugary goodness hadn't dissolved then the OG will be low but the finished beer will be the strength it's supposed to be, because the yeast will still eat the sugar. I doubt very much you have a 1.3% beer!

I imagine it's impossible to get an OG that low from a kit unless you added about twice the amount of water you were supposed to.

Don't worry about it, you still have beer

Similar issues here:- Low OG. What's wrong?

 

[Slid]

I'd put money on your OG of 1020 being false due to the kit not mixing properly in the cold water.

If all the sugary goodness hadn't dissolved then the OG will be low but the finished beer will be the strength it's supposed to be, because the yeast will still eat the sugar. I doubt very much you have a 1.3% beer!

I imagine it's impossible to get an OG that low from a kit unless you added about twice the amount of water you were supposed to.

Don't worry about it, you still have beer

Similar issues here:- Low OG. What's wrong?

Yep, what honeymonster said.

 

[MickDundee]

If you’ve added the right amount of water, the SG will be around what the kit instructions say it should be. Your low reading will because you used cold water and it hasn’t mixed properly.