Wort too dark

[An Ankoù]

FG was 1.006 it should have been 1.010. OG was 1.047 it should have been 1.050

Sounds as if your hydrometer might be a couple of degrees out or your wort was a bit warm for both measurements or you read from the top of the meniscus instead of the bottom, but none of this is vastly important- your mash temperature appears to be OK.

 

[Brew_DD2]

Horror of horrors. I hate wasting good beer, but if it's undrinkable there's little choice.
In spite of what I said earlier, I might do a small batch NEIPA just for the learning experience. Someone's bound to like it. Can anybody flag up a typical recipe?
I suppose the closest I've been to these hoppy beers is two batches of Moreton's Totally Tropical and another of the same but substituting the grain bill for my black IPA grain bill. Can't say I particularly liked the style of either of them, but our guests couldn't get enough. It's the "dank" hop flavour I don't like, but that comes from the hops, not oxidation.

You can definitely avoid the "dankness" if you only go for the fruity hops rather than some of the traditional West Coast IPA hops.

 

[Brew_DD2]

Was that all kits from geb or just the single hop ones?
My second batch definitely got oxidised. It was my fermenter.

I'm pretty sure it was the Single Hop series. I tried a couple when I was first starting out all-grain and thought they'd sent me the wrong kit.

 

[Sandimas]

Ditch the kits, do a simple SMASH with something like Cascade or Citra and then go from there. Plenty of recipes out there or knock up your own in Brewers Friend or something similar.

 

[Liam McDevitt]

Ditch the kits, do a simple SMASH with something like Cascade or Citra and then go from there. Plenty of recipes out there or knock up your own in Brewers Friend or something similar.

What do you say this? I'm Curious...

 

[Liam McDevitt]

I'm pretty sure it was the Single Hop series. I tried a couple when I was first starting out all-grain and thought they'd sent me the wrong kit.

Great thanks

 

[Sandimas]

What do you say this? I'm Curious...

Because if you have no idea what the grain bill is in a kit, you can't say it's too dark, or too light, or too malty. You can brew beer but you can't really learn anything about the different ingredients, what you like and what you don't like. A SMASH is a good way to get going with AG brewing and you can start experimenting from there, adding in different grains.

 

[Liam McDevitt]

Because if you have no idea what the grain bill is in a kit, you can't say it's too dark, or too light, or too malty. You can brew beer but you can't really learn anything about the different ingredients, what you like and what you don't like. A SMASH is a good way to get going with AG brewing and you can start experimenting from there, adding in different grains.

I get ya. Have another kit bought but after that I will be starting my own stuff. Thanks

 

[Crappyfish]

My first 3 all grain beers have been far too dark. I'm using a 35l brewzilla. First batch was fine but second two were undrinkable. They were all ipa but looked like dark red ale. It tastes of bland watery malt with little bitterness and zero hop aroma. I used carbon filtered / bottled water. What could be causing this??
1 too vigorous boil
2 mash temp too high
3 water ph
Any ideas?
Thanks

The only advice I can give is if your using a single hop then try a single hop single malt brew using your choice of hop and a light coloured malt. That way I reckon you should get a decent hop profile and with a single malt theres nothing else added to change the colour. There are many SMaSH recipies around.

 

[Scrattajack]

The kits were great in the early days when I was getting the hang of all-grain but later on, it was frustrating not knowing what was in them. I understand that if someone's gone to the trouble of designing and testing a recipe commercially they don't want to just give it away but on the other hand, their usefulness as a learning aid is shortened. I moved on to ordering the stuff for recipes by Graham Wheeler, Greg Hughes and people on here. At least I'm in control now (for better or worse).

 

[Liam McDevitt]

The only advice I can give is if your using a single hop then try a single hop single malt brew using your choice of hop and a light coloured malt. That way I reckon you should get a decent hop profile and with a single malt theres nothing else added to change the colour. There are many SMaSH recipies around.

Cheers. That's my next step