Did you do a partial boil and top up with water prior to taking your gravity? If so you got a crazy reading due to stratification of your wort and you can just ignore your reading. If you use all the ingredients in a kit and get your water volume correct then you will hit almost exactly the predicted gravity.
I agree there’s no way you have that high of a gravity reading based on the ingredients you describe here.
Also, you ever have a 12% beer? You’ll know pretty quickly, about half pint in for me, when you’re drinking one.
