LOL !!
It's ok, Its all going to be ok my friend.
We all have been there .
The one thing about this passion is the more you learn the less you know
I mean yes bottom line throw some sugars hops water and yeast in that sh*t and wait and youll get beer .
But the more we grow the more we realize how much truly goes into brewing a batch a of beer.
Lets see...
Ok well,
1. Go with partial mash as your not doing a straight extract. As in you are you using some fermentable malts with your specialty grains and not just unfermentables and extract.Controlled temps and sparging... Right?
unless you are just using extract and then specialty grains. The program is going by technique as well
but you can cheat this some what
Alot of people do a method of "Brew in a Bag " (there are websites you can look up for this)
But what I figure is you have like a 4 gal or 3 gal brewpot
and are doing like 3 gal then adding water in the end ?
2 the Program gives you a general F.G
You have to think of all the variables.
I mean the program doesnt have the exact ratio via your extract lots of variables in this age true weight etc....
and you could have more sugars to attenuate or convert in that
Are you sparging ? How are you sparging ?
I mean if the brew is hitting a lower gravity. Then your getting more alcohol right ? so thats not a bad thing ...
John Palmer wrote a book
http://www.howtobrew.com/section3/chapter18-3.htmlalso
http://www.byo.com/component/resource/article/511-countertop-partial-mashingBest thing is to not stress brother
RHAHB !
Just add in the final you get when you finish and go with that the next time you brew your batch
as well (though this wouldn't make that big a difference )
are you converting your Hydrometer reading via your temps?
Hope some of this helps ...
let me know a bit more info and we can help ya