Og

I brewed an extract kit Porter last night that was supposed to finish around 1.065. I added 2 pounds of honey during boil. My gravity reading ended up at 1.09. is it possible the honey bumped me up that much or did I drink to many home brews and misread?

 

Honey is about 40 points per gallon per pound, so adding 2 pounds of honey adds 80 points of gravity in 1 gallon. If you are brewing a 5 gallon batch, that means 80 points divided by 5 gallons, so you added 16 points. This means the honey addition alone should have bumped your OG from 1.065 to 1.081.

Now, if you added the extract you were supposed to, and had the volumes you were supposed to, you ended up with the gravity you should have. Extract does not mix very well with top up water, so you often will get inaccurate OG measurements when extract brewing, though the actual true gravity will be what you predicted.