Recent content by emccull

You're right I was reading that wrong, it says 0.985 not 0.85. I really don't know why that is so low, I'll try getting another hydrometer in case this one is warped.

the level of the liquid was between the .8 mark and the .9 mark at the very top so I read that as a specific gravity of 0.85

The apples I used were pretty sour, I picked them before any frost. I have the cider in my basement which is about 20 degrees celcius so I don't have to make any adjustments with my readings according to the paper it came with. I really have no idea how I ended up with these numbers, but I...

Hi there, I am making my very first batch of cider. I have about 3.5 gallons and I used apples from my tree that I juiced. I took a reading when I added the juice to my glass jug and it read 1.025 so I added about 800 grams of brown sugar which gave me a reading of about 1.050. Now two weeks...