estimating OG

I brewed a Belgian ale almost 2 weeks ago. I know from posting in other forums that I took a hydrometer reading that was inaccurate. I read 1.150. But bases on others opinions including my own I have decided that reading is false.

So based on this recipe I am trying to estimate my OG and ABV

7 lbs pale malt LME
1 lb pale DME
1 lb belgian candi sugar
.5lb Belgian caramunich
.5lb Belgian special B
.5lb Belgian CAV?? Can't recall this one exactly but those are the first three letters.

2 oz Northern Brewers at 60
2 oz Northern Brewers NZ at 5
Wyeast smack pack

By the way my gravity reading yesterday was 1.018. I am taking another one tomorrow and hopefully transferring to secondary. It has been fermenting now for 12 days.

I had the trial version of Beersmith but it has expired a long time ago. I am going to buy the full version but am waiting a little bit to make sure I have the extra funds. money is a little tight with all of the grain brewing equipment and kegging stuff I am trying to fund. So if anyone can give me a rough guess please. Thanks.

I ran it into beersmith and came up with 1.064 for an og. Was the malt you couldn't remember Caravienne Malt?

I agree that 1.150 is an inaccurate reading. your wort probably wasn't mixed completely with the top off water.

We need to know how many gallons you had if you remember.

When I took a reading I had just topped of 3 gallons of wort. I hadn't areated yet. It was a 5 gallon batch.

jcarson83 said:

We need to know how many gallons you had if you remember.

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Oh yeah. My estimate was based on 5.25 gallons.