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Checked it again, from the top this time and it came out 1.052! So very strange. Maybe it was 1.067 in the middle :) I'm less worried about it now though!

Well I think I'm pretty free of fruitflies and wild yeasts in my house :) I may go take another reading without even stirring it up just to see what it says. I'm ultra curious right now!

That makes me feel better although it's strange that none of my other beers (3 so far) have had this issue. I know I shook it enough ( especially after pitching the yeast) so I'm somewhat tempted to check it again by pulling a bunch from the top rather than a big sample from the bottom but I am...

It's also down to 64 deg so there is negative pressure on the airlock. If I open it to test I figure a bunch of air will flow in. One thing it could be was this was the first time I used my new thief and it may have pulled from the bottom as it's pretty long. Could this have thrown it off by...

I've already sealed it and put it in the fermentation chamber (2 hours ago). Isnt this a bad time to open it and introduce more oxygen?

Yup. Topped up from approx 2.5 gal to 5 gal, put the top on, and shook/rolled the bucket for 2-3 min before opening to take the hydrometer reading.

So this was my first beer that wasn't brewed from a boxed recipe and somehow my O.G. came to a whopping 1.1? How could this have happened? I followed the extract recipe to a T!