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Good points, NEMB. I did not take an original gravity reading. Don't have a hydrometer, in fact, but I will buy one tomorrow and give it another week, testing. (I will be priming with 2/3 cup dextrose in the carboy before bottling. I assume that's understood.)

I'm brewing my first batch, of an extract-based IPA. I was expecting it to take a couple of weeks, but it brewed flat after four days. I started it in a carboy with a blow-by tube. The foam subsided after 2 days. At 2.5 days, I switched to an airlock (on the same carboy). The bubbles started...