Cwetherford

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S my beer is done fermenting and I took a reading and it came out at 0000 wtf it's supposed to be a 4 percenter

phenry

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Help us help you. We need more info. Also, how does something have a gravity reading of 0000? You wouldn't happen to be in the international space station, would you?

brewmonk

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O/P , thats like telling telling an Inuit that his street is white.

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brewmonk

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as far as 0000 *(give or take a ONE)

a high alcohol beer, with a buch of residuals COULD come out at 1.0 it's just unlikely.

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Cwetherford

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My hydrometer just dropped all the way inn it seemed I dont get it like on th hydrometer there's the percent average and it went to 0%

Cwetherford

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It's like I made a n/a beer

two_hearted

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so, you fermented your beer down to 1.000? what was your OG? Have you used this hydrometer before?

passedpawn

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What as the original gravity (OG)?

You're measuring the final gravity. The lower it is, the higher the ABV of your beer.

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Cwetherford

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I have only used it to take the of for this beer and it was 1.040 and there's no way it's a high abv beer it's a American cream ale

Cwetherford

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Does that mean it's a 5.26%er