New brewer conversions

[Raife]

Hey, new brewer and just started my second beer - pale ale.

Found that my starting gravity was 0.052 and made 4.5 litres. Is there a formula to understand what my final abv % could roughly be?
Really starting to enjoy the process and looking to learn more.

Thanks!

 

[user 47834]

Hey, new brewer and just started my second beer - pale ale.

Found that my starting gravity was 0.052 and made 4.5 litres. Is there a formula to understand what my final abv % could roughly be?
Really starting to enjoy the process and looking to learn more.

Thanks!

Welcome!

Here you are Homebrew Beer Calculators for Brew Day | Brewer's Friend.

You're reading is probably 1.052 and for FG put in 1.010 as a good guess

 

[Raife]

Welcome!

Here you are Homebrew Beer Calculators for Brew Day | Brewer's Friend.

You're reading is probably 1.052 and for FG put in 1.010 as a good guess

Yes 1.052 my bad and thank you !

 

[Cwrw666]

There's a simple calculation.
OG - FG ( ignore the decimal points) and multiply by 0.131
I got sick of doing this every time so made a chart of the results so I can just look it up now.

 

[Raife]

There's a simple calculation.
OG - FG ( ignore the decimal points) and multiply by 0.131
I got sick of doing this every time so made a chart of the results so I can just look it up now.

Great, appreciate this !

 

[user 47834]

Eventually you'll end up using one of the brewing apps and that will do all the calculations for you.

I'd personally recommend Brewfather but you don't need to worry about that kind of stuff just yet.

 

[Raife]

Eventually you'll end up using one of the brewing apps and that will do all the calculations for you.

I'd personally recommend Brewfather but you don't need to worry about that kind of stuff just yet.

Appreciate that anyway thanks!

 

[Jim Brewster]

Yeast attenuation is also a factor but usually around 75-80% for a typical yeast like US 05, so you'd be looking at a finish gravity around 1.010 (as above-mentioned)