Starting gravity?

[Popspicker]

What governs the starting gravity please?
I have read read posts where people say they have got the SG up to say, 1050
The brew that I have just done seemed to be only about 1030, is this right?

 

[Eric_S]

That sounds really low - did you give it a good stir?

What are you making?

 

[Mark1964]

usually its sugar content

 

[31bb3]

What is the brew you have done and what is the temperature of the wort when you took the reading

 

[Popspicker]

I used the recipe from the LHBS for a TT lanndlord type, 250g of DME and 500g of brewing sugar with some infused grains, not sure of temp when I tested but it would have been cool, it's been fermenting nicely for a few days now.
Yes I did give it a really good stir before the yeast went in.

 

[31bb3]

1030 seems a bit low to me i reckon you will end up with around 3%

 

[Moley]

I used the recipe from the LHBS for a TT Landlord type, 250g of DME and 500g of brewing sugar with some infused grains

... and what else?
Was that added to some sort of base kit?
What volume?

 

[RobWalker]

Rule of thumb - every sugar that you didn't convert yourself (malt extract, brewing sugar, supermarket type sugars) will definitely be in there, so get it on a calc and see what your OG is. My OG always comes up around 1.030 due to stirring, but it's definitely closer to 1.055 when I'm drunk after 3 pints :party:

 

[Popspicker]

Apart from the hops Moley, nothing else, that's all he gave me.

 

[shocker]

Brew length ...or ,total fluid amount ?

 

[Popspicker]

Sorry , this is patchy isn't it
I did 20L

 

[Moley]

Sorry , this is patchy isn't it
I did 20L

20 litres, from 250g of spraymalt, 500g of sugar, a few other grains, boiled with some hops?

Sorry mate, this ain't going nowhere.

Tell me there's a zero missing from the spraymalt :pray:

 

[Mark1964]

doesnt look good :nono:

 

[Popspicker]

Oh bugger
I used Five bags of DME, Has he not given me enough?

 

[Moley]

I used Five bags of DME

That's my missing zero, so you used 2,500g of DME ?

Thanks for that, I'm out of here now as I've never brewed extract.
So come on you extract brewers, what sort of OG should that have given?

 

[Popspicker]

Thanks Moley

Just realised I missed the all important 0

Thanks for rallying the troops mate

 

[RobWalker]

Assuming your grains were steeped and no conversion took place, you should have around 1.058 OG. At 1.010 FG, that'll be 5.6% :)

Nothing to worry about at all. Like I say - if you chucked 3kg of sugar in there, it's in there for sure.

 

[Popspicker]

Thanks Rob
Woo Pretty potent then.
That's reassuring mate, have I read the hydrometer wrong then?

 

[Mark1964]

thought he only put 500g sugar in?

 

[Popspicker]

I think Rob meant the total sugars content.