egovolo
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I just finished brewing my second batch. Everything went so much easier this time. I even had the opportunity to have a bottle of my first batch during the process (needs another week in the bottle, but still very good). When I transferred everything to my fermenter and took a specific gravity, it was low, way low, at 1.028. I soon found out my error, the metric system. The ingredient list for my traditional English Pale Ale called for 3 kilograms of light malt extract syrup. This equates to 6.5 pounds. Well for some reason, I had "3" stuck in my head, and only dumped 3 pounds of extract into my boil. A quick taste after realizing the error, yielded a decent taste with a strong hop! (2oz of Goldings). Despite my doubts going to bed last night, I awoke this morning to the sounds of my fermenter bubbling away! I know the final product will be very low alcohol content and a weak flavor, except for the hops. Which leads me to the big question- I'm sure I'm not the first person to do this, or will I be the last. Who has some experience with this mistake? Should I wait it out and see how things taste or dump and free up the fermenter and brew another batch? I do have the name figured out should I choose to keep it- "Metric Mistake English Pale Ale"