Just don't forget to calculate and take into account the weight of the hydrometer tube full of liquid you are removing from each reading you take. That will impact the accuracy of the scale method of monitoring.
Just don't forget to calculate and take into account the weight of the hydrometer tube full of liquid you are removing from each reading you take. That will impact the accuracy of the scale method of monitoring.
I'm going to just have a simple excel spreadsheet. I'll weigh the better bottle and any blowoff rig, enter that into the spreadsheet.
I would recommend just doing your weights with the BB only. That way you don't have to worry how the blowoff rig is affecting the weight. It would be hard to guarantee that the same weight of a long tube is being counted after moving the carboy around.
I don't really follow...if beer blows out the tube and into the jug then that still needs to be weighed, so the jug has to be on the scale. What are you worried about?
I'm probably going to rig a way to hang a water bottle on the neck of the carboy for the blowoff just to make it easier to weigh the entire thing.
I was thinking about what The Kaiser said earlier about CO2 in the liquid screwing with the buoyancy of a submerged hydrometer type thing and was wondering how this dissolved CO2 affects a standard hydrometer reading and how large the affect is.
Enter your email address to join: