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Are you referring to Tommy Smyth?

It was probably 72 or 73 degrees for FG...

Long story short (for the long story scroll up for the beginning of the thread), I did indeed have a problem with temperature on the initial reading...I couldn't read it at 68, but I read the OG at a few degrees higher, 79 to be exact...the gravity calculator kicked it up a little to 1.044...

Depending on where you are, $8 a six will get you quality. In Charleston, the great local IPA's command $12 a six, but the larger breweries that put out great stuff can be sought out in megastores like Total Wine. I am personally convinced that after finding Lagunitas' APA "New Dogtown" (which...

@rodwha This was an extract batch, if that's what you mean..sorry, I'm being dumb, this was my first one.

@Calypso Go Blue, BTW...

Yep. First thing I did: Blame The Tools. Washed out the hydrometer vessel, gushed in some tap water, spun it twice, and it read 1.000. I will say this, I did have to spin it many times to make sure I was reading it right at 1.004...I couldn't believe it.

Hi all, First time brewer here, and I bottled some Pacific NW Pale from Brewcraft. After experiencing some problems (a 2000-word manifesto about how it all went down here via DropBox: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cllxot73kjv86fj/PostBrew1.docx) but nothing major, I found that my OG was lower...