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Hello, and Thanks for your reply! My starting gravity was 1.056 -- it was expected to be 1.062 but we weren't too far off. My finished gravity was 1.085, but I'm not sure if my hydrometer was reading correctly -- i may have bought a defective hydrometer. I called the store where I bought the ingredi...

Hello, I'm new to the brewcommune community, and new to home brewing in general. I've learned from my mistakes from my first two batches, and my third batch, a Belgium Strong Ale, was just bottled 5 days ago. I had the beer in the glass carboy for 3 weeks, as the recipe called for, and I used 3/4 cu...