There’s been practically no airlock activity at all for the last 18 hours, seems like this one’s thrown the anchors out as quickly as the other fruit-based brews we did recently, Summer Turbo and Farting Thrush.

This is a good time to check the gravity, and that looks to be just about 0.999. If it doesn’t move in 48 hours then I’m stuffing this into bottles, meanwhile let’s think about what the final ABV could be. We started with 1.028 so 0.999 equates to roughly 3.81% but we need to remember that the 1.028 already included 2.4% since half of my starter was actually cider @ 4.73%. So 3.81 + 2.4 = 6.21%. I don’t know if it’s as simple as adding up those numbers or of there’s more to it based on yeast attenuation etc.

I do know that the trial jar sample was quite nice, maybe a bit sharp with a lingering syrupy sugar taste that wasn’t there at the start, and some definite perlescence pearlescents bubbles which also appeared in the trial jar. And it’s definitely alcoholic.