danbyes
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So, I served up the first bottles of my first beer the other day. IT IS AWESOME!. Great color, great head, great taste, all despite the fact that my gravities were what I thought were lower than they should have been. I brewed a Flat Tyre (Fat Tire clone) kit that I got from the LBHS. The gravities were supposed to be OG: 1.054-58 and FG: 1.012-16, giving me an ABV of, if I'm not mistaken, 4.9-6%. I ended up with OG: 1.032 and FG: 1.010 for an ABV of 2.8. Whatever the ABV is, I don't really care, because it tastes great. BUT after drinking a few, I gotta say, it doesn't seem like 2.8. In Colorado our supermarkets are only allowed to sell 3.2 ABW, which, again if Im not mistaken, is like 4 ABV. 3.2 is for lack of a better word, weaker than my Flat Tyre. So my question is, what could I be doing wrong with the hydrometer reading. I have two hydrometers. One that was given to me, and one I purchased myself. I may have mixed up their sample tubes. I don't know if that has any affect on my readings. Either way, they are reading the same for each hydrometer in both tubes. My wort and beer samples are around 70 degrees during the readings and the adjustments were made accordingly...
Thanks
Dan
Thanks
Dan