BobbiLynn
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I might have told a little white lie if I ever inferred that I knew something about gravity readings. I have bought 2 hydrometers, broke the first one before ever getting to use it and never took the second one out of the package. I don't even know how to use a hydrometer. There, I confessed my beer making sin.
I mostly just brew low ABV beers on purpose, 2.9 to 4%(max) but of course that's just a guess since I don't do gravity readings. I've been brewing up to 100 gallons a year for the past 4 years by just winging it.
By drinking 12 ounces, I pretty much know the final ABV of the beer. Another home brewer was impressed that I could guess his ABVs so accurately. Of course it has to be when I've had nothing else to drink that day and only the first one.
I like to have 2-4 nice tasting, low ABV beers each evening. Sometimes I'll skip a couple nights if someone recently called me an alcoholic.
Besides figuring out the final ABV, what's the point of gravity readings? Or since my style of drinking/brewing, I really don't have to pay attention to that?
I mostly just brew low ABV beers on purpose, 2.9 to 4%(max) but of course that's just a guess since I don't do gravity readings. I've been brewing up to 100 gallons a year for the past 4 years by just winging it.
By drinking 12 ounces, I pretty much know the final ABV of the beer. Another home brewer was impressed that I could guess his ABVs so accurately. Of course it has to be when I've had nothing else to drink that day and only the first one.
I like to have 2-4 nice tasting, low ABV beers each evening. Sometimes I'll skip a couple nights if someone recently called me an alcoholic.
Besides figuring out the final ABV, what's the point of gravity readings? Or since my style of drinking/brewing, I really don't have to pay attention to that?