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No im not talking about finally getting a Full HD experience...
I made what i assumed would be a perfectly normal beer using the following...

1 Can of Coopers Canadian Blonde
250g of Light Malt Extract
250g of Brew Enhancer
250g of Honey
250g of Dry Light Malt Extract

Filled to the 23L mark...
Took a reading and got a reading of 1080!

What the hell went wrong?

Did you mix thoroughly? 1080 seems too high for a 23L batch and <3Kg of fermentables.

Cheers,
Greg

What Greg said.
Even mixing it properly might still leave you with a false high reading.
What happens is that all your goodies are poured into your fermenter first, and you fill all the nooks and crannies, including the tap outlet. You then add water, and stir. However, even though you stir, you never quite get all the goodies out of the tap outlet, so they stay undiluted to an extent. When you take a sample from your tap, the first thing you drain off are the mostly undiluted goodies, and that gives you a higher reading.
Given your ingredient list, I'd expect an OG in the range of 1.040 to 1.045, and a FG around 1.013 give or take a couple of points.

i put 6 litres of cold water in the fermenter first then dumped in the boil and then dumped in the rest of the water.

inark wrote:No im not talking about finally getting a Full HD experience...

I thought maybe you had a dingo problem.....

Smabb wrote: I thought maybe you had a dingo problem.....

According to the good ol' impartial intertubes, 1080 makes them die in agony!

Anyone remember 1080 Snowboarding on the N64? I could hardly ever nail the 1080 though...

1.080 is the norm for my brews..but I throw down 1 big grain bill. just call it a 'unknown' and enjoy it.

1080 Poison... I remember learning about that stuff in Biochemistry at Uni... Sodium Fluoro Acetate...

As for 1080 in the hydro, i dont think i could drink a blonde ale at 8.5%...

it came out at 1.010 so im guessing it was as everyone said and something was in the tap...

squirt in the turns wrote:Anyone remember 1080 Snowboarding on the N64? I could hardly ever nail the 1080 though...

That was a ripper, I only ever got a couple of 1080's with the silver surfer you get at the end.. best game on the 64 IMHO

pixelboy wrote:best game on the 64 IMHO

Dude... you played GoldenEye, right?

pixelboy wrote:

squirt in the turns wrote:Anyone remember 1080 Snowboarding on the N64? I could hardly ever nail the 1080 though...

That was a ripper, I only ever got a couple of 1080's with the silver surfer you get at the end.. best game on the 64 IMHO

dude, what about yes bond of course, but mario kart, and one of my personal favourites diddy kong racing!!!! GOLD


and yes 1080 seems high, I have had a 1065 last brew got down to 1010, cracking next week outta the keg

shoulkd be good to go though, retest every day to compare results.

Pfffft, N64. You kids with your new whiz bang shite....

Used to play mario kart on the super nintendo.

I noticed yesterday i still have the original Nintendo SES in the shed.......

I have my NES hooked up in the loungeroom, youngster!

Bum wrote:I have my NES hooked up in the loungeroom, youngster!

I have NES on my iphone

Where's Warra to show us the phone in his shoe?

Bum wrote:Where's Warra to show us the phone in his shoe?

I'm too busy with 99 to bother showing you my shoe phone.............

PS: I really am a fan of Get Smart. I have every episode ever produced on DVD.

Let's not mention the movies though...

Heard this one before? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDhhdG-nslg
(Video is fan-made, obviously, but the song is very much genuine)