BrewSpook
Well-Known Member
As a 30 year old electrical engineering student, I am afforded several things above my 19-20 year old counter parts that force me to ask some serious questions...
The latest being - does beer have a resistive property? My thought being that as the sugar is used during fermentation the conductive property, specifically the impedance of the liquid would change. This would allow for measurements to be taken and some sort of conversion to a SG reading that could be monitored by electric probe.
Has anyone read anything about this?
Initial experiment thoughts would be 1 lb DME in 1gal H2O, lightly hopped and take measurements before and at many points during fermentation matched with hydrometer/refractometer readings and see if there is a potential for relativity between the two.
The latest being - does beer have a resistive property? My thought being that as the sugar is used during fermentation the conductive property, specifically the impedance of the liquid would change. This would allow for measurements to be taken and some sort of conversion to a SG reading that could be monitored by electric probe.
Has anyone read anything about this?
Initial experiment thoughts would be 1 lb DME in 1gal H2O, lightly hopped and take measurements before and at many points during fermentation matched with hydrometer/refractometer readings and see if there is a potential for relativity between the two.