theblaster
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I'm brewing up a watermelon wheat beer in a day or so. I'm trying to calculate the final abv and am wondering if there is much contribution from the sugars that are in the watermelon juice? I have about 5 liters.
theblaster said:Right, but will that tell me the difference between fermentable and unfermentable? Or is the sugar in juice all sucrose and easily digested? If so, then the hydrometer reading at the end of the boil / chilling process would work just fine.
Right, but will that tell me the difference between fermentable and unfermentable? Or is the sugar in juice all sucrose and easily digested? If so, then the hydrometer reading at the end of the boil / chilling process would work just fine.
AmandaK said:Doesn't matter if you just want ABV calcs.
Are you adding this into the boil???
I'm brewing up a watermelon wheat beer in a day or so. I'm trying to calculate the final abv and am wondering if there is much contribution from the sugars that are in the watermelon juice? I have about 5 liters.
theblaster said:I wouldn't be surprised if I lost a lot of flavor by adding it at flame out instead of in secondary. That may be why 2 liters didn't give me as much watermelon prominence as I wanted. 1 tweak at a time. If this doesn't work, maybe I'll drop it in secondary next time around.
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