Woodbury419
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Here's my problem, I brewed a variant of Cheese's VCCA several weeks ago and I'll post the recipe/specs if needed. I achieved a 1.053 OG and used wyeast 1056 (6th generation) on a stirplate (1 liter). A krausen came and went and a nice yeast cake as normal appeared on the bottom of the primary. today I decided to keg it, and I boiled 4oz of lactose in 6oz of water and added the vanilla extract I made myself (3oz each of rum/vodka with 3 vanilla beans). I added it all together and took my FG sample through the cobra tap like i normally do as soon as I kegged it. and the FG is 1.062. That's nearly 10pts higher than my OG...it definitely tastes sweet and never had this happen before. =( any idea on why this happened? (i know i didn't underpitch because I use the same yeast routine for all of my beers and they attenuate well. But it doesn't make any sense to me why the FG is higher than the OG even after I only added 4oz of lactose. I also used a different hydrometer to make sure it was correct. idk...worst part is I cant do anything to it because I deploy here within a week and this keg was for a buddy of mine this week... =(