Thats definitely happened before. And ya, still tasty.

I appreciate the technical side of the craft so by all means.. I take detailed notes and strive toward being able to replicate a beer I love as a professional baker would. If I could just stop experimenting with ingredients each time I could work on perfecting one recipe. haha. But yeah, the...

Hmmmm, did some googling and ya, based on that formula you gave my beers have actually been coming out 1%ish weaker than I had thought. But the strange part is that I aim for 5%-5.5%, and after I have 3-4 of em I wonder if its more like 6.5%. Which is why I started to look into my ABV results. I...

Here.. pic is worth a thousand words. Maybe my head is on backwards, but this is a common hydrometer sold in every beer and wine making store in my city.

Well, my table and instructions that came with my hydrometer say to do just that. There are even examples with the instructions that show it done that way. The chart spells out the PA and if I follow the chart, it says exactaly what I described. One example directly from my instruction states as...

So I use the brewers software and plug in 4kg of grain. OG= 1.045 and FG= 1.011 which make 4.38% ABV But when I look at those numbers on my hydrometer sheet, they read OG= 1.045 (5.52 potential alcohol) and FG= 1.011 (.35 potential approx) making it 5.17% ABV?! So not sure why the software...