Fastforwardx2
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I brewed up a recipe kit yesterday and my OG was way off. The kit is Adventures In Home brewing (AIH) Reindeer Dribble with an expected OG of 1.052 but I had an OG of 1.080. The only tweaks to the recipe were the addition of Irish Moss and FermaidK. Used the 7lbs of Pale LME that came with it and before that steeped the 2lbs of specialty grains for 20 minutes. The only thing I can think of is that I didn't use bags for the hops (which were pellets) so there was a lot of hop debris in the worth. Could the hop debris be the issue why I was getting such a high reading from my hydrometer. I checked it multiple times.