checking gravity

[BFR]

How do you go about checking the gravity of your brew?

Do you un bung take a smaple out with a wine theif type device check and then return sample to the brew??

all equipemnt is sanitised e.c.t


i;m brewing in a 4.5l (1 gallon) car boy and don't want to drop the hyodrometer into the carboy.

any help pls

 

[056r]

Yep that's about it, remove airlock, take sample, test sample, return sample to carboy OR sample is consumed for "testing" purposes.

 

[gratus fermentatio]

I NEVER return a sample to the carbouy. While the risk of introducing some unwanted organism is small, it IS a possibility; besides, why wouldn't you want to drink that hydro sample?
Regards, GF.

 

[johnniesmith]

Normally, you'd drink the sample because you need to know what the wine tastes like at every point of the process.

 

[Insomniac]

I also do batches of that size, I now have a refractometer which refractometer which removes the problem, but when taking hydro readings I've taken to pouring a tiny amount of it into a glass as a taste test and the rest goes back in.