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is this normal
I recently started brewing simple extracts, and read that boiling them would help the flavor. i like that but is it normal for the original gravity to be less than when not boiled? and my finish gravity is higher also. is this normal and how to change it. i had on my heat and mix a o.g. of 1.052 and a f.g. of 1.008 wich gave me a very good beer.the one i just boiled for 45 min gave me a o.g. of 1.042 and after a three day fermentation it died and i have gotten a 1.012 f.g. reading for two days. any help would be apreciated you can e-mail me ,my computer internet is so so .
Are you using prehopped extract? It is always a good idea to boil your extract to gurantee sanitation but also fully dissolve and distribute the sugar. Your first batch may have not been fully and evenly distributed, and your OG may have been false. Same holds true with the new batch. If your extract volumes were identical, and your finished fermenter volume are identical then the OGs should be identical as well. if the temp was varied of the reading that can affect it as well.
As far as the FG, you may just want to give your ferment some more time. yeast health, oxygenation, and ferm temp can all speed up or slow down from batch to batch. If your anticipated FG is .008, that seems realistic, another week may drop those 4 points.
Also, since you boiled the second time, was the temperature of the wort the same when you took you OG reading on both batches? If not that could be throwing your reading off. I'm not sure if higher temp means lower OG, I'm just throwing it out there.
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