FunkyScribe
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I brewed my first batch, and, yes, I didn’t know I was supposed to top off to 5 gallons in the fermenter so I only had 4 gallons with a 5 gallon recipe, but is your gravity supposed to go down after fermentation? For some reason I thought it would go up. Anyway, it went from 54 to about 15, I think, which according to the formula I found makes the ABV about 5.1% (ignoring negative numbers). Does that seem right?
Also, it tastes (out of the fermenter, before adding sugar) like the sourest crabapple you ever bit into, so…
Also, it tastes (out of the fermenter, before adding sugar) like the sourest crabapple you ever bit into, so…