Watery beer.

[greerso]

Hi folks,
My first attempt at brewing beer has not been exactly,what you would call successful. But did I expect this, no? I guess that's when we learn best, by our mistakes or lack of knowledge, right?
Myquestion here is. Why does my beer taste as if it is watered down?

Many thanks!

[lockwood1956]

Hi there

A little more info please, will maybe help

What sort of kit was it, and what volume did you make?

what was the start SG?
what was the finishing SG?



regards
Bob

[greerso]

Hi there

A little more info please, will maybe help

What sort of kit was it, and what volume did you make?

what was the start SG?
what was the finishing SG?



regards
Bob

Hi again,

Please forgive my ignorance or lack of knowledge.

I cannot remember the brand name but it was the usual liquid extract and I made 40 pints.

The start specific gravity was 1.035 and after 13 days it finished at 1.008.

I don't know what other information would be useful to you.

Thank you for your assistance.

Regards, John.

[Cellar_Rat]

presuming this is a kit?

[lockwood1956]

Well...


your alcohol level is around 3.7% so this may make it seem a tad thin.


You say you made it to 40 pints,....some of these kits are designed to make smaller batches, did you make it to the correct volume?


end of the day....its made now

I know you say it tastes watered down, but does it taste ok despite that?

if so....get it drunk and get another one on.

Some of the kits make ok beer, but not brilliant, some of them are fab, I like the ones that have no sugar added (two tins of extract) they can make great beers.


hope that helps
regards
Bob

[rjb222]

Hi again,

Please forgive my ignorance or lack of knowledge.

I cannot remember the brand name but it was the usual liquid extract and I made 40 pints.

The start specific gravity was 1.035 and after 13 days it finished at 1.008.

I don't know what other information would be useful to you.

Thank you for your assistance.

Regards, John.

There is a way around your thinness issue. I would assume you used the recipe on the can as to quantities and and sugars added etc. You can add to the thickness in three ways. One is to tea some grains and make sure they contain caripils. Second is to add a unfermentable sugar such as Mato- Dextrin. Third is to put a couple drops of glycerin into the finished beer just before bottle priming.I have used the first two methods but never the tried. I have seen certain canned malts that contain glycerin in a small package that you add after ferment. I just upgraded to windows 7 and find no spell checker i will edit after finding one.

[lockwood1956]

I assumed it was already in bottle Robert


but you are right, if it isnt in bottle yet, there could be some tweaks to be had

[koomber]

There is a way around your thinness issue. I would assume you used the recipe on the can as to quantities and and sugars added etc. You can add to the thickness in three ways. One is to tea some grains and make sure they contain caripils. Second is to add a unfermentable sugar such as Mato- Dextrin. Third is to put a couple drops of glycerin into the finished beer just before bottle priming.I have used the first two methods but never the tried. I have seen certain canned malts that contain glycerin in a small package that you add after ferment. I just upgraded to windows 7 and find no spell checker i will edit after finding one.

Never thought of using glycerin in beer!

Have you tried Chrome yet? It has a built in Spell Checker.

[rjb222]

I think you are correct Bob it is in the bottle. I was looking to the future for this brewer.

[rjb222]

Never thought of using glycerin in beer!

Have you tried Chrome yet? It has a built in Spell Checker.

I have Chrome have not played with it much Just need to get used to seven (sigh) I was so happy with XP then I got that viral contact. If I ever meet or find the buxxxx that built that he or she and I will have some words.

[Cellar_Rat]

Never thought of using glycerin in beer!

Have you tried Chrome yet? It has a built in Spell Checker.

If we are getting into browsers - try 'Opera' its the best kept secret.

[lockwood1956]

try 'Opera' its the best kept secret.

no...that would be my sex change operation!

[lockwood1956]

anyway....back on topic


have some of your buddies come round and help you drink it.

I suspect though a little age on it will help a little, how long since it stopped fermenting?

[Cellar_Rat]

I was also thinking along the lines of 'was it really a 40 pinter?'.

Heard this the other day..........

Two old chaps sitting wheezing and dribbling in the rest home, one slides his oxygen mask aside and says to his mate....
"Do you know if we hadn't given up drinkin' an' smokin' we could have missed all this!"