Just took my first post-fermentation hydro reading, my hydro sample was much more orange than the deep red I see in these pictures. OG was 1.055, FG (assuming it's done, which I need to confirm in a couple days) is 1.004. I did use Crystal 120 instead of Caraaroma, and Carapils in place of the Carafoam, both substitutions were mentioned earlier in this thread. Also used US-05 but I wouldn't think that would affect the color. Also seems like the FG is much lower than I expected. Don't think this will turn out competition worthy but should still taste good I think (though truthfully I don't have a lot of experience with figuring out final taste based on early samples, still pretty new to brewing), but do the Caraaroma and Carafoam make that much difference in the color as opposed to the Crystal and Carapils? Or is the color due to some other process issue? Crush? Efficiency?
