user 30639
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I'm just an extract brewer, and my OG and FG readings are always a little off. Never enough that I feel the need to ask if I've ruined my beer, but they're not what they should be.
I checked my hydrometer, and it says it is calibrated for 60 degrees. Look, I live in Texas. My house is never 60 degrees. The kitchen is usually closer to 70-75 when I'm brewing. And more importantly, my beer is usually at 70 or so when I'm pitching the yeast or taking a reading for the FG. So how do I adjust for temperature?
My thought was this, and please correct me if I'm wrong. Get some distilled water and let it warm up to room temperature. Drop the hydrometer and see what it reads. At 60 degrees it should read 1.000, correct? So if it read 0.998 (for example) at 70 degrees, I would add 0.002 to whatever reading I got.
Am I on the right track, or way off base?
I checked my hydrometer, and it says it is calibrated for 60 degrees. Look, I live in Texas. My house is never 60 degrees. The kitchen is usually closer to 70-75 when I'm brewing. And more importantly, my beer is usually at 70 or so when I'm pitching the yeast or taking a reading for the FG. So how do I adjust for temperature?
My thought was this, and please correct me if I'm wrong. Get some distilled water and let it warm up to room temperature. Drop the hydrometer and see what it reads. At 60 degrees it should read 1.000, correct? So if it read 0.998 (for example) at 70 degrees, I would add 0.002 to whatever reading I got.
Am I on the right track, or way off base?