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thanks all for your help and advice. will be measuring boil off for sure in the future!

i got a hilariously high amount of water to use by using this: http://biabcalculator.com/ it said to start with 2.6 gallons. i went with 2.25 but will start with 2 next time. is that calculator broke? or am i not using it right?

thanks so much for the info. this helps a lot!

totally makes sense. i'll start with less water next time

will definitely start measuring that. cheers!

this is what i think is most likely happening. ended up with 1.25 -1.5 gal post boil volume. didn't measure it but i dumped a bunch after filling the fermentor

i didn't cool it but ran the numbers through a calculator http://www.brewersfriend.com/hydrometer-temp/ to get 1.033

i'm using a 3 gallon pot and ended up with what i would guess was 1 and a quarter to 1 and a half gallons of final volume. i should have measured, but i filled the 1 gallon fermentor and dumped the rest. strike volume was 2.25 gal. no squeeze, no sparge. when converting an all grain recipe to...

^ i made that recipe by dividing by 6 from a 6-gallon all grain recipe i found on this site

grain was crushed once at LHBS. I'll ask them to run it twice next time! recipe below: All Grain Recipe - Wheat beer ::: 1.052/1.012 (1 Gal) Grain Bill (70% Efficiency assumed) 1 lbs. - Wheat Malt .83 lbs. (13.28 oz) - 2-Row Pale Malt .167 lbs (2.672 oz)- Caravienne Malt Hop Schedule .167...

i just started reading gravity on my brews. my latest gravity reading was way off from what i was hoping (1.052 expected, 1.033 read). seems like i have a lot more leftover wort (less boil off) than i was planning on. if i use less water next time, will the gravity reading be higher? maybe...