First AG - Fell asleep oops

[myke2008]

Brewed my first AG yesterday. Tried the recipe off Jims AG page.

Everything was going well, drinking a few beers and wines while brewing. At around 01:30am this morning while the wort was cooling I fell asleep on my chair and woke up around 7:30 this morning. I continued with my AG and transfered to FV and pitched yeast. Do you think my brew will be ok as it sat around 6 hours after the boil before i pitched? Also my OG before pitching was 1.026 which seems a little low as I was about 4 litres short of 23 litres so I topped it up with water.

[delboy]

Brewed my first AG yesterday. Tried the recipe off Jims AG page.

Everything was going well, drinking a few beers and wines while brewing. At around 01:30am this morning while the wort was cooling I fell asleep on my chair and woke up around 7:30 this morning. I continued with my AG and transfered to FV and pitched yeast. Do you think my brew will be ok as it sat around 6 hours after the boil before i pitched? Also my OG before pitching was 1.026 which seems a little low as I was about 4 litres short of 23 litres so I topped it up with water.

The 6 hours sitting about when chilling shouldn't make any difference, but your OG is alarmingly low, are you sure about that reading, if you are something has probably gone wrong during the mash. You could think about adding some spraymalt/extract to it to get the gravity up a bit.

[Kristoff]

Also my OG before pitching was 1.026 which seems a little low as I was about 4 litres short of 23 litres so I topped it up with water.

Had you temperature corrected your hydrometer reading?

[MartialAnt]

If your hydrometer temp was correct I think thats going to be around 2.5% at the absolute most.
Look at it like this. You have 2 choices. Have a batch of shandy or drop in a bag of glucose. I dont know how much stronger 1kg would make it.

But its not advisable to add sugar after pitching. So i was old in my early brew days.

I'd risk it.

[Northern Brewer]

The overnight cooling won't affect it. If you wanted to raise the gravity then 61g of sugar you added would raise it by one degree. Not too sure how far I'd push it though.

[myke2008]

I have just added 200g of spray malt its all i have in. Hope its still drinkable. I can live with the low alcohol content.

[yashicamat]

I'd probably drop a shedload of hops into it when it goes into the barrel to add more flavour, OR brew up a stronger ale and mix the two at serving time?

[myke2008]

Good idea. I really hope its drinkable. Been looking through beersmith at my brew plan i followed and I can't seem to work out why its came in massively under. Other than coming in under 3 litres when it went into the FV. Do you lot reckon it could be down to the sparging?

[Parva]

What was your grain bill?

[booldawg]

What was the brewhouse efficiency figure set to?

[myke2008]

What was your grain bill?

3.75Kg (Its the recipe thats on jims all grain page)

What was the brewhouse efficiency figure set to?

It was set a 75%

[Parva]

I'm about to do AG #8 and it will follow my set pattern of using 5Kg grain to aim for around a 5% brew. I would drop your efficiency calculations to 60% and up your grain bill for your next one. I'm slowly getting my efficiency up and can probably start dropping my grain bill a little but I do know that 5Kg's will always give me a good pint no matter what I do to try and destroy it. Better to waste some grain and get a good beer than waste some time and get a mediocre one.

[myke2008]

I'm about to do AG #8 and it will follow my set pattern of using 5Kg grain to aim for around a 5% brew. I would drop your efficiency calculations to 60% and up your grain bill for your next one. I'm slowly getting my efficiency up and can probably start dropping my grain bill a little but I do know that 5Kg's will always give me a good pint no matter what I do to try and destroy it. Better to waste some grain and get a good beer than waste some time and get a mediocre one.

Thanks ill try around 60% and i agree the grain is relatively cheap in the whole cost of things