Recent content by Jean-François Beauchamp

Thank you very much for all your help! I did not know that a refractometer was not giving a good reading in the presence of alcohol, so yesterday, I transferred my beer to a carboy, and I used the opportunity to measure the gravity with a hydrometer. So the correct gravity is 1.040, which makes...

I measured the OG with a hydrometer, and corrected the reading for 20 C. Since then, I got a refractometer that I used for my last two gravity readings (1.066). According to the recipe, the OG should have been 1.099. However, it only reached 1.077 at 57 C (135 F) or a gravity of 1.089 once...

Hi! I brewed a Wee Heavy 10 days ago (on December 16), and the airlock bubbled only for a day. Still, I left the beer sitting in the fermenter for 9 days, and I took readings yesterday, and today. The gravity is not moving anymore, and it is at 1,066. The OG adjusted for 20 C was 1,105. The...