Fri Jan 03, 2014 10:17 am
true. my scenario was a little different: 4 gal (unknown, i didnt measure until after topping off) + 0.5gal water + 2L 1.040 = 1.097. i was saying that this would be higher than 4 gal (same unknown) + 1 gal water, because of the half pound of dme used to make the starter. the recipe had a projected gravity of 1.090 under the latter scenario.
i haven't run the numbers to see what the projected gravity would be with the extra 0.5lb of dme, so i dont know if that's a large or small part of the reason the gravity wound up being 1.097, rather than 1.090 as projected. i should probably go find my notes on the recipe and rerun the numbers with the extra 0.5lb dme, but either way i probably did something else to get a higher gravity, maybe extra time steeping specialty grains?
thanks for the advice on keeping it cool, i'll see if i can put together i setup like that, i like the concept because it's easy to add some ice and bring the temp back down as needed. since standing water + rampaging 3 year old is a bad mix, any advice that doesn't involve 4" of free-standing water?
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