Also how does Final Gravity affect carbonation? Another idea I have is to oxygenate the dilution water before adding to prevent staling. Any comment on that. As you can see I don't like to give up.

I haven't oxygenated it besides the initial carboy shake and one other shake I did at high krausen. The kit I bought just came in. It was only 3 gallons of wort. I pitch two activator packs of American II. And then when I realized the situation I pitched a vial of San Diego and a vial of Super...

I tried a partigyle and the first gyle was to be a Barleywine. Originally I aimed for a gravity in the 1.100 range, but to make a long story short, it condensed more than expected in a long boil. I had just bought a refractometer and used it after the boil to get a reading but there was nothing...