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Well, it seems i made a wee error in my first beer (brown ale). I fermented for 7 days, then went straight to bottling. I didn't realize a secondary fermentor was a key part to the beer equation. I've been reading on these forums little bits and pieces about the potential for exploding...

update- just took my final gravity reading after 7 days - i am at 1.02. I am good to go.

Oh man. You have got me laughing out loud! I love the title of your post.

here is another possible reason why my reading is goofy - i didn't have a turkey baster to extract a sample into the hydrometer cylinder, so i just dropped the sanitized hydrometer into the plastic fermentor bucket and looked at it.

Everyone- thank you very much for your replies. I know for certain that i made 5 gallons of liquid, and then took a reading after adding the water, so that solves that part. here is the problem, which i got from your quick replies - i only stirred the wort and new water together for about...

Recipe: 6.0 amber dry extract 2.0 biscuit/amber malt 1.0 medium crystal .75 northern brewer hops for 90 min .5 northdown hops for 20 min yield is 5 gal gravity: 1.067 alcohaul/vol: 5-5.8% mashed the biscuit and crystal at 157 degrees for 45 min in 3 quarts of water...

I brewed my first beer, a brown ale, from p. 92 of Randy Mosher's book: "Radical Brewing." I used a mini-mash recipe, whereby i steeped grains before adding dry amber extract, and then the hops, etc. In his recipe, Mosher lists a "Gravity: 1.06" but does not specify if that is a final gravity...