Recent content by joshbmace

Hi all, still pretty new to homebrew - my fourth batch is fermenting right now. Previous three batches used WLP001 and I had no problem reaching FG. This time I decided to try WLP005 (British Ale Yeast). Within 24 hours things looked good; blowoff tube was bubbling and SG was dropping. However...

Thanks for the replies, everyone! Gnome and doug282cz both hit what I was looking for - SG*Vol is an approximation of "total sugar" that I can use to calculate efficiency, and I don't even need to use my mash volume to figure out theoretical yield because multiplying my grains' PKL values by...

I'm not sure if I'm having a major brain fart, but I cannot wrap my head around how to determine efficiency (conversion or brewhouse) using PKL or SG. It seems to me that SG as a unit of measure is a concentration of sugar in a solution. For example, your wort will increase in SG between the...