I had a few questions about specific gravity that I was hoping someone could help me wrap my head around.
I see a bunch of people saying that they hit their OG, or were off by a bit. Is that because you have a recipe that says what it should be, or are you figuring it out somehow based on something? I'm brewing a kit that doesn't tell me what my OG should have been (at least I didn't see it), so I don't have anything to reference; I was just wondering if there was something I could use to estimate what it should have been.
Secondly, OG versus FG: the kit I have also doesn't mention what FG I should be getting to. I'm assuming that I could just measure until it levels off and then I know fermentation is complete, but I was wondering what the relationship of OG versus FG was - is it just to figure the ABV, or are they nice numbers to know for repeatability of brewing?
This is more for my future knowledge-base as I currently don't have a hydrometer and I'm (ignorantly) following the kit's directions of letting it ferment for two weeks and then bottle. Next brew is going to be a SMaSH of some type and I'll make sure I'm set to check SG's.
I see a bunch of people saying that they hit their OG, or were off by a bit. Is that because you have a recipe that says what it should be, or are you figuring it out somehow based on something? I'm brewing a kit that doesn't tell me what my OG should have been (at least I didn't see it), so I don't have anything to reference; I was just wondering if there was something I could use to estimate what it should have been.
Secondly, OG versus FG: the kit I have also doesn't mention what FG I should be getting to. I'm assuming that I could just measure until it levels off and then I know fermentation is complete, but I was wondering what the relationship of OG versus FG was - is it just to figure the ABV, or are they nice numbers to know for repeatability of brewing?
This is more for my future knowledge-base as I currently don't have a hydrometer and I'm (ignorantly) following the kit's directions of letting it ferment for two weeks and then bottle. Next brew is going to be a SMaSH of some type and I'll make sure I'm set to check SG's.