hydrometer

Most fruit wine recipes suggest taking the initial SG reading just before adding the yeast, so that the sugar content can be assessed, and thus we are enabled to calculate the final (potential) alcohol content. It occurs to me that with a fruit wine such as apples, once the pectin is added and...

Hi all, my hydrometer is of unknown provenance and I’m guessing it’s quite old. I don’t understand 2 of the three scales and the 3rd is simply “pot abv” which, although clearly understandable, seems too good to be true as there are too many factors which would affect final abv. I’ve attached...

Hi I really don't know what I am doing, I saw some treads about turbo cider and thought I'll have a go. So as usuall I jumped in and started, got a Demi John and added yeast and then found I should take a hydrometer reading, but I didn't have one at that point so ploughed ahead. Actually the...

Though I expect to stay. I bought one of these refractive hydrometers. It has a scale from 0 - 80% alcohol v/v, my pre-fermentation mix measures at 55%. Is there a way to convert this reading to a density measure that can be used for brewing? I have started brewing to get me through the...

Hello friends, I have recently been introduced into the world of home brewing. I have always had a love of great beer and it is such a pleasure to explore the realm of various exciting beers. It was only till a little while back that I wondered if i was able to make my own beer and be able to...

New to this just trying to make my first turbo cider. Iv just finished adding the yeast and leaving it to ferment. However when I took the hydrometer reading there was still sugar at the bottom of the Demijohn does this mean that the cider will actually be a higher reading than what I had?

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Hi all I have my first lager brewing, a Wilkos Light lager 4% kit, which has just stopped bubbling and has been at 1.014 for a couple days, I am hoping it still goes down further as it is only 3.3% at present, I’d probably be able to drink the entire FV worth in one sitting at that strength...

Hi All, New to the forum and have a couple of questions regarding a small batch of TC. I have just kicked off the following recipe in a 5 litre demijohn 3.5 litres apple juice 300g/ml strawberry coulis (homemade and boiled) 100ml lime cordial 1/2 lemon juice Mug stewed tea 2tsp sweetener 1tsp...

So I dont have a tap on my FV. What are good options for sampling from an FV which is only half full? I have a lawnmower oil change kit which has a big syringe and clear tubing, my wine thief isnt long enough and actually was very poor at holding any liquid when I sampled post boil. I want to...

The weather is been going from 0ºC to 40ºC and back again over the course of a few weeks and it annoyed me that I had no further details than "it's so hot" or "it's so cold". Yes we do have a thermometer in the house but no more accurate than "hot" or "cold". And since I homebrew I thought it...

Sorry for what I'm sure is a very basic and regularly asked question! I cannot for the life of me get the various calculations I have found to work out alcohol content from a hydrometer reading to come up with a recognisable number. Does anyone have a simple way to explain?? If I read the...

Wondering if someone can explain an issue I am having measuring gravity with a hydrometer. I have started recording preboil gravity readings from my bull dog brewer. I run the wort off from the tap at the bottom of the boiler into a cylinder and the cool to RT before taking my reading. Trouble...

[/IMG] Hi there, I'm doing my 2nd brew, Razorback IPA and wondered if anyone could confirm what this hydrometer reading was. I'm hoping around 1.005. Any help much appreciated. Thanks!!!