I give up four beer four low fg

[jobiewon]

final is way to high 1.030

[BadRock]

What temp are you fermenting at? What kind of yeast are you using?

[jobiewon]

70 degrees danstar nottingham

[jobiewon]

sorry munton

[jobiewon]

I was looking at the Mr. malty calculator. From what I see I should have pitched to packets. My start gravity was 1.042 Am I doing it right?

[BDawg]

6 lbs of lme in 5 gallons should give you about:

1 lb of LME gives roughly 35 gravity pts per lb.
6 x 35 = 210
210 / 5 = 42 => 1.042 Sounds to me that you were spot on, not low.

Now, you are saying you had a 1.030 gravity measurement? Or was it a 1.003? Has the krausen fallen? How long has it been fermenting?

A) 1.030 is way high if you started with a 1.042 wort. That means your beer has not finished fermenting yet. You are either fermenting it to cold, or with weak yeast, or you didn't add oxygen, or you are way early trying to drink it before it has finished. Was it the yeast that came on top of a can of extract? Those tend to be old and weak.

B) 1.003 is low but that only means that you had a very highly fermentable wort and the yeast converted a whole shitload of alcohol. Your beer will be on the thin side but drinkable, and have more alcohol in it than you thought it would. Nothing bad here. Next time, use more fermentables, and a lower attenuating yeast.

So, is it A or B, and also, has the krausen fallen, and how long has it been fermenting?

[BadRock]

Damn Dawg, your pretty much covered it! Nice work.

[jobiewon]

fallen it is1.030 14 days