Ok, based on your excess worries, in BOTH threads, we're going to have a "come to jesus " meeting right now.
So pull up a chair, grab a beer...and listen to me my young friend.
If I can impart one bit of "wisdom" for you on your journey as a brewer it is this;
If you brew from fear, you won't make great beer!
You might make drinkable beer, or you might make crap...but until your realize that your beer is much hardier than you think it is, you won't do some basic things, (like using your hydrometer) to make your beer great.
You just have a typical new brewer fear that your beer is somehow weak, like a new born baby..and will be ruined or die of you look at it wrong...I want to put it into perspective for you, and save you a lot of new bewer nerves...
Beer has been made for over 5,000 years in some horrific conditions, and still it managed to survive and be popular....It was even made before Louis Pasteur understood germ theory....
If beer turned out bad back then more than it turned out good..then beer would have gone the way of the dodo bird, New Coke, or Pepsi Clear...
It is very very very hard to ruin your beer....it surprises us and manages to survive despite what we do to it...
And doing things like taking a hydro reading, or racking a beer (if you choose to) will not cause more harm to your beer..if you are careful.
I want you to read these threads and see..
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/wh...where-your-beer-still-turned-out-great-96780/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/has-anyone-ever-messed-up-batch-96644/
And this thread to show you how often even a beer we think is ruined, ends up being the best beer you ever made, if you have patience....
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/ne...virtue-time-heals-all-things-even-beer-73254/
There is a saying we have in the homebrewing community...RDWHAHB...make that your mantra and you will be a successful homebrewer...
Oh this thread is really good too...if you adopt the mindset in here you will do well...
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f39/youre-no-longer-n00b-when-24540/
It's not brain surgery, it's a hobby...it's supposed to be something fun, not something we stress out on....and really
most of the time we think a beer is ruined, it isn't!!!!
Got it? Good!!!!!!!!
Now it's past uncle revvy's bed time....goodnight!