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The sweetest wort would in theory be at the bottom, but it doesn't work that way.

Yes a hydrometer makes the difference. In England (cause cask is a special discipline) we had ten separate hydrometers that measured a. 10 range each. Cost about 150 bucks a go.

I hate working in plato (I wouldn't even home brew with it) a few months ago I f**ked up a brew. 1000 litres. Why? Cause the hydrometer was dirty. I'm soaking them in chlorine now and rinsing before the reading (used to do in England All the time - took a long time to persuade my boss to buy bleach!) my reading was 3 plato off, luckily realised before the bittering hops, otherwise it would have been a mess.
Went from a black ipa to a dark Ale cause of a grotty hydrometer.
 
Yeah, I am not sure how to manually do that, but I used this calculator http://www.rooftopbrew.net/abv.php. ... the number doesn't change much... I still feel my reading was just not accurate.

A couple weeks ago my girlfriend brewed a dunkelweizen that was only supposed to be 1.052 and when I took a gravity reading after bringing the level up to 5 gallons it too read way high. Like 1.65... but again no way could that have been accurate.

I'm bout to give up on gravity readings. What the hell do I need to get an accurate reading?
 
thinking about it, you could have geen given DME and grain with a higher SG than you were planning with. I have seen DME in a range of 1.038 to 1.045 for the same type and if you got a better conversion on your grains then that would account for it. Honestly I think I'd trust your Hydrometer more than a program.
 
I do want that. And have thought long and hard.. BUT I have no kegging system. Or even if I did I have nothing to keep em chilled in either.

For now I'm bound to the bottles I think.

I only have plastic fermenters so I'm thinking a 6.5 and maybe a 5 gallon glass carboy. With the left over money, either more ingredients or a bottling tree, cause anything that makes bottling suck less I'm all for.

Still undecided though
 
Well youngins, and oldins. I started another batch O' beer. After loosing my last batch, I have now completely run out of homebrew. I don't want to run out anymore, so its time to get a pipeline going. First up is Me Irish Stout. Brew day was 1/9. 16 hours after pitching this was chuggin away like a mo' fo'

Fermentables - 6.6lbs Briess Golden Light DME

Hops - called for .75oz Nugget 12% (60 mins) but the Nugget pellets I have were 14.8% so I cut it down from 21 grams to 19 grams. No clue if this was enough to make a difference, but its what I tried.
and 1oz Fuggles (30 mins)

Yeast - Wyeast WLP004 Irish Ale - Pitched straight, no starter.

5 Gal 1.054 OG

Chillin at 68F

stout.JPG


Up next Imma brew an Irish Red, that I am going to attempt doing my first starter. I'm tired of under attenuated beer like my last couple batches.
 
georgej said:
The sweetest wort would in theory be at the bottom, but it doesn't work that way.

Yes a hydrometer makes the difference. In England (cause cask is a special discipline) we had ten separate hydrometers that measured a. 10 range each. Cost about 150 bucks a go.

I hate working in plato (I wouldn't even home brew with it) a few months ago I f**ked up a brew. 1000 litres. Why? Cause the hydrometer was dirty. I'm soaking them in chlorine now and rinsing before the reading (used to do in England All the time - took a long time to persuade my boss to buy bleach!) my reading was 3 plato off, luckily realised before the bittering hops, otherwise it would have been a mess.
Went from a black ipa to a dark Ale cause of a grotty hydrometer.
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just read this

i cant stand using gravity readings in anything else other than plato

they just arent specific enough, no pun intended

knock out all your CO2 with octanol, get a variable temp hydrometer from a 0-8.5P scale, 7-16P scale, and 15-24P scale, and you are golden, i pick them up from Nova Tech industries for 42 dollars a piece
 
Interesante... I understand none of that plato.


Anyway, I did up my first starter today to be ready to pitch for tomorrows brew day of the Irish red. Hope I did it ok. I used 1500ml water and 150grams DME. Boiled 10 minutes, cooled, and pitched. I just have been shaking the starter every hour or whenever I think about it. Hopefully I will have enough cells to properly attenuate this batch.

Untill tomorrow......
yeast starter.JPG
 
Love flea markets, never know what your going to find. But I always have my eye open for that 59 Vette I want to own some day.
 
Yeah I like going to the flea market. You never know what you will find. I'm always lookin out for beer stuff. Someone was selling a 3 gallon carboy also, but for 30 beans! Screw that noise, I could get it brand new for cheaper.
 
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