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Thank you, Dizzy! ❤

This is overwhelming! I do have lots of room in the carboy. I wasn't sure if I should syphon the "gunk" in the bottom of the primary, so I didn't. And I didn't know that you should fill the carboy. I'm learning so much. Thank you!

THANK YOU!!

Good tips. I plan to make sure I know what I'm doing next kit. I have learned my lesson. I wish I'd found this forum before I started the kit. But it all turned out fine, so YAY! beautiful dino-snake garden. My son would like this. We're taking him to Drumheller in Alberta next week!

Yes, it took some time to figure that out. I have to learn how that hydrometer works and reads. I only tasted a wee bit because I thought it wouldn't be ready or I'd get sick or something. Thanks to this forum, I did learn that you can taste it. Tasted it yesterday and felt I couldn't taste...

After what I went through with what I thought was a crappy SG reading yesterday, I'm tasting at every step and I'm going to study to be a chemist. Lol.

Thank you!

I'm posting a pic of my reading tonight. Thank you for this. I use the hydrometre that came with the whole shebang that I bought--it all came in one purchase, a local store.

I use a regular hydrometer, the one that came with the whole package I bought to make the wine.

Wow. That sounds so complicated, but I'm on it! Thank you, Dawg!

It's low because there was so much gunk in the bottom of the primary fermenter (the oak slivers I guess) that I left it there.

No. That I do remember. I make bread and other doughs and I've seen yeast foam. I don't recall this foaming. I certainly don't remember anything bubbling in the airlock. BUT when I did the big stir to get out the carbon (?) I remember thinking it made bubbling noises like sparkling water.

I think so. Whenever they told me to take it. Which was actually just at the beginning, and then a middle one--which I panicked about and shared with the guy at the store and he reassured me that it was normal. And then tonight. Ugh, I'm such an idiot.

There was nothing in the instructions about adding sugar ... I added the packets that they gave me with the kit. Here's a pic of my SG reading from tonight:

@KCCam forgot to tag you. I'm so upset ...

You know, I make bread, and I don't remember it ever foaming like yeast would make bread do ...

I don't even have that info ... not specifically. I followed the directions on my kit COMPLETELY. To the point where if I needed clarification, I called the store that sold the kit to me! I'm a very thorough person, I did not miss a step!

My wine reading

I pulled the wine out of the carboy, is that still a good reading? I can tell you that I tasted it and I don't think there's any alcohol in it. OMG I ruined it somehow!! I'll go get a pic.