I'm new to the hobby and only a dozen all grain brews in. All with the recipes I use, while designed for 5gal batches, don't yield me an actual full corny. I tend to be about 4/4.5gal in the corny unless I allow a lot of grainy dissolved hops into the fermenter or trub into the keg. I'm mashing in an Anvil Foundry and fermenting in a Fermonster.
My solution was to scale up the recipe by 10%. So I multiplied all my grain bill, hops, water vol by 1.1 and used those values. This worked, but my Irish red this time is darker, both times I did this. The gravities worked out the same or very close, but both times red was just a little darker.
Am I doing something wrong here? Wouldn't scaling everything by 10% not just make 10% more beer? It tastes like the original red but it's just darker for some reason.
What do you guys use for scaling recipes?
My solution was to scale up the recipe by 10%. So I multiplied all my grain bill, hops, water vol by 1.1 and used those values. This worked, but my Irish red this time is darker, both times I did this. The gravities worked out the same or very close, but both times red was just a little darker.
Am I doing something wrong here? Wouldn't scaling everything by 10% not just make 10% more beer? It tastes like the original red but it's just darker for some reason.
What do you guys use for scaling recipes?
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