ChshreCat
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ok so maybe one of you can help me here. I brewed this on tuesday and took a pre boil SG reading to see how my mash went, i got a reading of 1.020 @165 degrees, which i believe temperature corrects out to 1.043??? boiled for the hour, added my LME(scaled it back to 2 pounds) with ten minutes to go, chilled and poured 4 gallons into the fermentor. topped with a gallon of water to make 5 Gals. took a Hydro reading and got 1.040?! is my Hydrometer jacked from the hot wort before or did I f up somewhere?
If you're worried about your hydrometer, you can always test it in pure water. It should read 1.000.
You cut the LME by over half. That's going to lighten up this beer quite a bit.