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Final Gravity: 1.019
Attenuation: 70%
ABV: 6.16
Bottling was quite uneventful. Primed with 5oz priming sugar boiled in 1 pint of water. Aging is certainly required to tame down the oats astringency.

Gravity Reading: 1.020
I’ll let it sit in the carboy for a week or so before I bottle. I’ll take my next reading then. I’m suspecting that I got a dilute wort reading because I took off the top. I hope so because that attenuation is not good.

My latest kit from Northern Brewer is on its way to my home. I’ll be attempting their India Pale Ale. Why an IPA, well I say to you, why not?
I really enjoy this style of beer for a variety of reasons. First, as a hophead, I love to be pelted in the [...]

Looking inside the fermenter (or spackle bucket as Pete likes to call it) there was the typical layer of gunk around the top. All foaming had settled but there was quite a good amount of flocculation on the bottom that I observed after siphoning. I took a gravity reading and it stood at [...]