Well, maybe a bit over 4%. Cornmeal cream ale I've done a lot. NB hops which I haven't used in a while.
Did a few forehead slap things early and realized I should be at a boil. Shut down all the electricity and saw that one of the 240 legs to the element fried. I had just checked it about 5 brews ago. Everything looked fine - no signs of the wires overheating. I had a spare element but no new spade connectors.
Pumped everything back to the EHLT to hold it and went to the hardware store. Pumped it back and had lost some volume - I assumed evaporation. Made my best guess on when to shut the boil down and ended up with 1.043 for a final gravity. Expected 1.050 and maybe a bit more. Guess I'll have a nice light session beer for the Holidays.
It'll be beer....... 
