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Gravity Reading: 1.012
Attenuation: 71.5%
ABV: 3.93
I’ll let it sit in the carboy for a month to clarify and what have you. I’ll take my next reading then.

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.

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 [...]