Ok, so a week into it, and a few things happened. I have replaced my broken equipment and i now have a new graduated flask to measure gravity in. In 3 days of active fermentation the gravity was down to 1.02 (i dunno where it started). The fermentation died rather rapidly, leading me to believe that perhaps not enough yeast got into the reproductive stage, so i added some yeast energizer, pitched another packet of S-33 in. I also added more fermentables, about 3-4oz of maple syrup and about 4-5 oz of Lyle's Golden Syrup (partially separated into glucose and sucrose cane sugar syrup).
I just racked the (now beer) into a glass carboy to clear, gravity is once again down to 1.02, i'm going to see the beer will clear up before i bottle it (it's a porter with noticeable fruity overtones, so far pretty pleasant to smell
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