My wife bought me a beer kit as a Christmas present. It was a partial mash Rye Ale kit that the home brew store assembled. I haven't done a partial boil kit in quite a while but I figured that I'd give it a shot since it was laying there doing nothing. Well, I got lazy and didn't take a pre-boil gravity reading and ended up like 15 points under my original gravity target. So I kegged it today and calculated my ABV and came up with 2.5%. So is it beer, near beer, barley beverage, or what? Needless to say, the test tube sample today was pretty bitter.