anteup02
Active Member
A couple weeks ago a brewed a Brewers Best Holiday Ale. I have a few questions about my hydrometer readings.
First off, according to the instructions with the kit the OG was supposed to be 1.068 - 1.072. When I took my reading mine was only about 1.064. Now I was thinking of a couple of possible reasons for this, and wanted to ask everyone on here if these would make sense. I lost just a little bit of my wort to a boil over. I assume this would cause the OG to be slightly lower. Second, I had 2 cans of LME to add. I wonder if you dont get every last drop of that out of the cans if that would also lower my OG? Do these seem like logical reasons why my OG would be off?
According to the instructions, my beer is supposed to be at 7 - 8 % ABV. According to my most recent readings mine is only at 5.7%. My final gravity reading is at 1.02. I measured it on day 6 (1.025), day 8 (1.02) and day 10 (1.02). I was wondering if my final gravity reading could be off due to the way I measured it. I am using a bucket with a spigot as my primary, and I just took samples from the spigot into my flask. I was wondering since the spigot is at the bottom would my samples have a higher OG reading than they should due to all the particles that were settled towards the bottom that got in my sample? My sample is very milky looking as well, I am getting a little worried due to the discrepencies in the gravity readings and the milky look. Anyone have any advice??
Thanks a lot for any info on what I have done wrong, I love this place, read it every day and ALWAYS learn something new!
First off, according to the instructions with the kit the OG was supposed to be 1.068 - 1.072. When I took my reading mine was only about 1.064. Now I was thinking of a couple of possible reasons for this, and wanted to ask everyone on here if these would make sense. I lost just a little bit of my wort to a boil over. I assume this would cause the OG to be slightly lower. Second, I had 2 cans of LME to add. I wonder if you dont get every last drop of that out of the cans if that would also lower my OG? Do these seem like logical reasons why my OG would be off?
According to the instructions, my beer is supposed to be at 7 - 8 % ABV. According to my most recent readings mine is only at 5.7%. My final gravity reading is at 1.02. I measured it on day 6 (1.025), day 8 (1.02) and day 10 (1.02). I was wondering if my final gravity reading could be off due to the way I measured it. I am using a bucket with a spigot as my primary, and I just took samples from the spigot into my flask. I was wondering since the spigot is at the bottom would my samples have a higher OG reading than they should due to all the particles that were settled towards the bottom that got in my sample? My sample is very milky looking as well, I am getting a little worried due to the discrepencies in the gravity readings and the milky look. Anyone have any advice??
Thanks a lot for any info on what I have done wrong, I love this place, read it every day and ALWAYS learn something new!