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can i work out the % of alcohol is in the fusel infected beer i have brewed. i remember the og can i still pop some beer in hydrometer even a month after brew in keg and calculate %? just to give me idea of the ethanol i have created lol

what might be the formula be for that thanks

I just checked my latest reading yes its reading 1010 I didnt even think that refractometer useless when alcohol present but makes sense when I actually thought about it cheers jlem and acid rain

I started all-grain brewing with a 27ltr urn and did boil in bag set up which was good but I ended up having to sparge 3/4 more out of the grains to make up 21ltrs or so. Not like when I extract can brewed I had a better yield. Now i have a 76ltr pot thinking that if I had more room I would get...

Dear Shooter, It was end of summer so around 30oc but at that time of year it would have fluctuated up and down. I measure with fractometer which i tested the other day for calibration. I have a big fridge now to ferment in during hot time with an external thermostat running into it. During...

Hello fellow brewers I have just started full grain brewing and for some reason i am getting throbbing 2 day hangovers from 1/2 a dozen beers. Is it because I brewed while it was end of summer and i fermented in to hot of tempreture. Starting gravity was 1054 but it stopped fermenting at 1025...

Hi everyone I am a H.B.Talk virgin so be gentle LOL! I have keg system and am after a D.A.B recipe I work with a heap of Germans at work and I wanted to impress them next time they come over. I have a book called great beers of the world book and they say to use a dortmunder export can kit but I...