Kokopuff829
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thirstyutahn said:Hi all, this is my first post and this was also my first brew ever. With the help of a friend I went straight into all-grain and this is the recipe I used. Everything seemed to go very smoothly and I hit 1.054 og. My only concern is that my wort ended looking very brown as opposed to the very dark brown - black I was expecting. I'll try to give as much info as possible to hopefully help me diagnose the problem.
Recipe was the same except my LHBS only had .5 lbs of white white malt, so he recommended 1lb of flaked wheat in addition to the .5 lb of white wheat. Also he was out of 60L caramel so I got 55L instead. Everything else was spot on and I used 7 pounds of us pale malt 2 row. My LHBS used his mill to crush my specialty grains and my buddy used his mill to crush my 2row(he averages 80% eff)
I heated 3.125 gallons of water to 165 I believe and my mash tun temp came out to 151 so I added 2 cups of boiling water to get it to 152. I mashed for 60 min. I batch sparged with 4.5 gallons(2 at 2.25 gallons each time) of water at 170. Now when I first drained into my brewpot my wort was very dark as expected but on my first sparge it was lighter and on my second it was also lighter. After my 60 min boil and all that when i dumped it into my 6 gallon fermentation bucket it was way higher than expected. I mean I'm about 3 in from the top and certainly more than 5 gallons. I thought I would be under because beersmith was saying I'd need a little over 8 gallons of water.
Any idea what I did wrong? Sorry for the novel but I always hate when people ask what went wrong but don't give any details. Thanks for the help .
I'm thinking you might of not boiled off enough if you got more than you thought. I'm just a noob but that's my thought