Low OG

[FromtheShadow]

I brewed Northern Brewer's extract kit - SH2B (Single Hopped Best Bitter) - yesterday and everything went well, but the original gravity was quite a bit below what the instruction sheet thought it should be.

The sheet said OG - 1.045 and my hydrometer reading came out at 1.029 (adjusted for temp at roughly 68).

Any suggestions as to why the reading is so low?

 

[ncbrewer]

Read this thread:
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/at...inal-gravity-reading-wrong-dont-panic-289735/

You should find the answers there.

 

[FromtheShadow]

Fantastic.
Thank you sir.

 

[ncbrewer]

Glad it helped. Revvy's original post and a lot of the others helped me a lot.