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date: '2020-09-27 12:44:42'
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I'm coming to the eventual conclusion that I'm doing something wrong when taking a wort sample to measure gravity (mid & post fermentation).. yesterday's check was much higher than I wanted, the same as for most of my previous brews and the same as 3 days earlier despite airlock activity suggesting that fermentation is still active.

My theory is that I'm not running enough wort through when I take a yeast dump and as such the wort that I'm measuring contains a fair amount of yeast still.. This might explain why the beer two brews ago felt like a strong beer despite my gravity readings suggesting otherwise.

My original gravity has been close to target (this time bang on) for each brew.. despite attempts to increase aeration considerably this time around I'm still miles from the expected final gravity - I'm sure I'm doing something wrong with the sampling and current gravity is actually lower than I'm reading.

Will run more wort off during tomorrow's yeast dump and maybe when fermentation appears to be finished I'll take a sample from the top of the keg post-transfer.

Only my 7th brew, many lessons still to be learned.