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Thanks for the feedback to all! It looks like I will give option 3 a try.

I am brewing Northern Brewer's Cascade Mountain West Coast IIPA in about 2 weeks. LME with specialty grain. Link here: http://www.northernbrewer.com/documentation/beerkits/WestCoastImperialIPA.pdf I bought this kit about a month ago. I refrigerated the yeast upon receipt. When I run it...

Are you using the same kit as I did? 1.070 seems a bit high. Did you mix the wort and the top-off water before you took your reading? My temp stayed really steady between 69-70°. I used my swamp cooler once to counter the high temps at start. Never was above 72 or below 68°.

Before I posted, I read a little about results with this kit and the lactose "offset" seemed to be a common theme. Still, when I saw 1.033 as a FG I was concerned that at best I was around 1.026 with lactose considered. Everything makes sense now that Gavin showed me the Brewer's Friend...

Thank you so much for the response, Gavin! I actually had the same problem with my last batch and just re ran my readings for both beers and feel a lot better.

I brewed NB's Chocolate Milk Stout on 2/15 (LME with specialty grains). OG was 1.049 per hydrometer and 1.052 on the refractometer. Target gravity was 1.051 so I felt good about this batch. I took a refractometer reading on 2/20 at 1.033 (70°). Tonight, 2/22 I had the same 1.033 reading. Is this...