Boy, I feel like asking questions is the wrong thing to do on a forum designed to help people with brewing. TCGOOSE, just under 6 gallons. However at this rate the way everyone is sounding I should just dump it out and forget about it, and not bother asking questions.
Don't think anyone is suggesting you just dump it and stop asking questions.
What the previous posters are trying to impress on you are a few valid points in an attempt to try to help you and increase your understanding of the situation you had/have.
With the amount of fermentables, that your recipe consists of, in 5 gallons of wort your OG
WILL work out to somewhere close to 1.032. That is a given. However, due to the viscosity of LME it is sometimes really difficult to fully integrate the two liquids (wort from the kettle and top off water) of differing densities. This means that sometimes the sample you pull to measure could contain the higher density wort, which would seem has happened in your case, giving a reading much higher than the expected OG. If the 5 gallons of wort had a more even distribution of the fermentables your OG reading would have probably been much closer to the estimated value.
By the further addition of a 1/2 to a gallon of water your actual OG has probably decreased by something like 0.002 to 0.005 points so what should have been a, roughly 3.3% beer might well come in around 2.8% (according to
beercalculus)
In your 2nd last post you said "I added approx 1/2gal to my ferementer, stirred everything for a bit,
then I cooled it to 58* I checked it with the hydrometer and it read 1.034"
Was your original hydro sample cooled to around 60 f before you took the reading?? If not, that would have also contributed to an overly high reading.