jalgayer
Well-Known Member
All -
I see many that talk about taking hydro readings over and over until you have 2-3 days of unchanged readings.
My concerns:
[1] Opening and closing and extracting samples 3-4-5-6 times can be a little risky for infection (not panicking, but chance >0% --- kinda like why people dont rack to secondary - risk of oxidation and contamination etc)
[2] Waste - I know it is not a lot but again, 3-4-5-6 readings at 6-8 oz a pop can get up to 48 oz (4 beers)... Again, I know that it is important to know that fermentation is done...
What I have been doing is waiting the primary out ~2 weeks then checking. If I am at the targeted FG, I rack to secondary. If I am only using a primary, I just wait the ~2 weeks and check, then wait another 1-2 weeks then bottle.
So, if I know that my approximate FG is 1.013 and I check at 2 weeks and I am at 1.011... I dont check it again until just before I bottle.
Thoughts?
I see many that talk about taking hydro readings over and over until you have 2-3 days of unchanged readings.
My concerns:
[1] Opening and closing and extracting samples 3-4-5-6 times can be a little risky for infection (not panicking, but chance >0% --- kinda like why people dont rack to secondary - risk of oxidation and contamination etc)
[2] Waste - I know it is not a lot but again, 3-4-5-6 readings at 6-8 oz a pop can get up to 48 oz (4 beers)... Again, I know that it is important to know that fermentation is done...
What I have been doing is waiting the primary out ~2 weeks then checking. If I am at the targeted FG, I rack to secondary. If I am only using a primary, I just wait the ~2 weeks and check, then wait another 1-2 weeks then bottle.
So, if I know that my approximate FG is 1.013 and I check at 2 weeks and I am at 1.011... I dont check it again until just before I bottle.
Thoughts?