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I wanted to get opinions on taking hydro readings. I have two bucket ferms, a wine thief, hydrometer & tube to float the hydrometer. Seems the simplest way would be to sanitize a hydrometer & dunk it in the beer/wort. Wouldn't a thief or other object risk contamination equally?

I've had my first and second batches in the fermenter now for 4 weeks and 4 days respectively. The first batch belgian triple by BB(yeah I know I didn't know any better at the time) I brewed up and followed directions to the best of my ability at the time. What I did not realize was that the...