Hydrometer Reading After Adding Priming Sugar

Oops...added my priming solution and forgot to take my FG reading. I decided to take a hydrometer reading after nonetheless. How will the affect the reading? It's a Pale Ale and my OG was 1.050 and the FG ended up at 1.011. I carbed at 2.5 vols. Is there any way to figure out what my actual ABV might be? I'm not really worried about it as the beer tastes great, just curious what difference it would make. Thanks in advance for any info!

 

assuming that this is a 5 gallon batch.
The amount of corn sugar to reach 2.5 volumes should be about 4.3 oz.
This should approximately raise the gravity by .002
So your actual FG should be 1.009, which is a tad lower than you would want a pale ale to be

On a side note, if you have not calibrated your hydrometer yet I highly recommend doing so. You don't need distilled water to do it, cold tap water works fine as long as it's 60 F.

 

It's a 1 gallon batch but with system/trub loss, the bottling volume ended up being .8 gallons. I used .7oz of priming sugar as per Beersmith's calculation.

Good advice, I will definitely calibrate my hydrometer. I just bought a refractometer to I will compare to that when calibrating too.

Thanks!

 

Ahh... I believe the adjustment is the same in that case

 

great, Thanks dawgmatic!