Last night I brewed a beer and it all went wrong. I made a Belgian Blonde - target OG was 1049. Instead the OG came out at 1031 - disaster! What went wrong? I think it was the mash. I used my cool box mash tun, and put the grains into a BIAB mesh bag to help with cleanliness. However, last time i did this was with much more grain, whereas this time the sparge water bypassed a lot of the grain, or didn't extract as much as it could. And I was in a hurry..
So how can i rectify this? I've put the wort outside in the cold, and i'm going to attempt to boil off quite a bit of the wort to get it somewhere near to 1040 - 1045 and then i'll be adding some candi sugar to get it up to the right strength. Wish me luck!
UPDATE -
I did an extra boil of 2 hours, which got the wort to 1039. My savior was Wilkinson's which sells packets of dried malt. I added some DME to the wort to bring me up to 1045, which with the candi sugar later on is just enough for the style.
