nstorm1121
Active Member
Quick question on Gravity Readings...
I took my original gravity (post boil), of a wheat beer and there was a bunch of crap floating around in it. Now I expect that, since my strainer didn't catch all of the pelleted hop remains, and I didn't use irish moss, since i want it cloudy.
Here is my question: I know that a lot of that stuff will fall out in my fermentation vessels, so how can a calculation using OG and FG product an accurate ABV? Doesn't the trub that falls out affect the OG and is obviously not longer there when you take the FG? That would make your OG-FG higher than just the sugar converted to alcohol.
Maybe i'm looking to far into this, but I want to make sure that I understand how things work, and that i'm doing things correctly.
I took my original gravity (post boil), of a wheat beer and there was a bunch of crap floating around in it. Now I expect that, since my strainer didn't catch all of the pelleted hop remains, and I didn't use irish moss, since i want it cloudy.
Here is my question: I know that a lot of that stuff will fall out in my fermentation vessels, so how can a calculation using OG and FG product an accurate ABV? Doesn't the trub that falls out affect the OG and is obviously not longer there when you take the FG? That would make your OG-FG higher than just the sugar converted to alcohol.
Maybe i'm looking to far into this, but I want to make sure that I understand how things work, and that i'm doing things correctly.