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So just sealed up my first barley wine in the primary fermentor. I was a little surprised I didn't get the OG I was expecting (got 1.088 @ 4.5gals instead of 1.11 at 5 gals.) I was following a recipe I saw in my homebrew store (with altered hops choices.) My notes are below, can someone let...

I just finished my boil on my Hef, cooled down the wort, transferred to the carboy, added water to the 5 gallon mark and took a hydrometer reading. The reading was only 1.022 or so. When siphoning the cool wort from the kettle, there was a very large amount of sediment that was left behind, so...