Before doing this, I needed to sterilize the turkey baster, trial jar and hydrometer to be on the safe side.
On opening the lid, as you can see in the photo above, it has cleared up a lot in the 5 days and looks good. Also got a lovely cidery smell when the lid was taken off.
After taking some of the brew out with the turkey baster, I put this into the trial jar and then dropped in the hydrometer to get the reading. As you can see in the photo below, the reading has went to 1.004 which is a good point to be at this stage.
Obviously it is still cloudy, this will stay like this until the bottling stage where hopefully it will clear up nicely over time.
Am going to leave it another 4-5 days then take another 2 readings a day apart and if they remain the same, I will transfer it to a 2nd fermenting vessel before the bottling stage.
Fingers crossed but it looks to be going well so far!
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