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I was clearing my cabinet of old grains and decided to brew something random out of leftover pale/Munich/biscuit/aromatic/honey malts + flaked oats, flaked wheat, and clear candi sugar. The result, a 4.3% malty Belgian-ish beer:

Hi all, My SO has always been on board with me getting a kegerator but we own a 2BR city apartment with space being the primary issue. I brew 2.5-3 gallon batches since I'm the only one who drinks between the two of us (2.5 gallons lasts me 8-12 weeks). Money is no problem and with space being...

Thank you! That's where my thoughts were "something Belgian" but I figured a blonde didn't quite fit. The T-58 was appropriate in this case, I could have just gone with that and no S-04 but this was supposed to be an experiment anyway!

Obviously beer, but I was clearing out my leftover (and possibly stale) grains to make room for new ingredients and decided I didn't want to just toss them so I made a frankenstein's monster beer instead. I took a short n' shoddy approach with a 30 min boil and no sparge: ANVIL Foundry 6.5...

I figured the reading wouldn't be accurate, I just wanted to see if there was any change between the refractometer readings one week apart. The hydrometer at least told me the true FG.

I bottled today, thanks all for the feedback and reassurances!

I was also thinking my gravity readings were off but I used both a refractometer and a hydrometer each time I measured. The readings were stable over a week for each (1.010 for both hydrometer readings and 1.020 for the refractometer). I'm going to keep it in the fermenters for another week...

I brewed this and split it into two batches and racked one over raspberries and the other over blueberries. My SG was 1.014 when I split the batch over the fruit and after a day or so, airlock activity picked back up and my SG was measured at ~1.025 per batch. After a week the SG settled out...

Candy orange IPA with grain modifications. Original here (Candy Orange IPA - Hazy Session)

Cheers, thank you both.

I appreciate all of your help, I'll definitely stir really well next time before taking a pre-boil gravity. I'm just curious what calculation you used so that I can know what I missed or where I went wrong. I arrived at the pre-boil value of 1.052 because of the correction factor for a temp of...

120v system, lid was off for the boil. I agree this doesn't make sense especially since I lost 0.75 gal over the 1 hr boil, thus concentrating the wort. I stirred during the hopstand and when I added the simple syrup but not right before taking my sample 20 min later. Interestingly the FB anvil...

This could have been the case, per my other comment I pulled the pre-boil sample after I sparged by running my recirc pump into my graduated cylinder. The volume in the pump tubing had been sitting there for about 15 minutes before I pulled the sample off.

Hey thanks for the response, so I brewed a session IPA with 2-row (74.4%), carapils (9.3%), flaked oats (7%), flaked wheat (7%) and honey malt (2.3%). I mashed with 3 gal at 160 degrees for 60 minutes and used a recirc pump, raking the top third of my grain bed every 15 minutes or so. I sparged...

Hi all, I brewed my second batch on my 6.5 Anvil Foundry today and copied Clawhammer's Candy Orange IPA recipe (Candy Orange IPA - Hazy Session). I am still dialing my Brewfather numbers in but today I found something strange with my SG and OG. Their recipe targets an OG of 1.046, I set my...

My first all-grain recipe (brewed on an Anvil Foundry) -- cream ale! I overshot my OG (1.042 predicted, 1.056 actual) due to underestimating my efficiency, which is never a bad problem to have.