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They've been bottled for two weeks now so I will try one tomorrow and hope for the best. When I originally tasted a sample right before checking gravity, it was really really sweet and I knew something was off. then the reading came in really high which confirmed my suspicion based on taste...

Thanks for the responses, much appreciated. Brewbama - I usually mash for an hour at 150 and I use a kettle with a false bottom to mash. my temp started dipping a bit and I turned on the burner for a quick heat addition but it shot up to 160 surprisingly fast. I took the lid off and stirred a...

just using a hydrometer with a sample of beer in a plastic tube that the hydrometer gets stored in.

Got myself an undesirable situation: I bottled a batch of beer that turns out didn't ferment much. original gravity of 1.066, final of about 1.04. Realized FG after bottling and started searching for help, but this is such a ridiculous blunder there weren't many good search results. Wondering...