Recent content by mgideon

I'm in Monterey by the coast and it is fairly mellow year round. It was probably 68 degrees that day. I did zero my refractometer. When I was in the local brew store last weekend, I mentioned my refractometer was from my aquarium. The guy said that won't work. I don't understand why...

Hello, I'm in the middle of 4 1 gallon batches of cider. I went to whole foods and got the cider in the glass jugs. All four of them had a starting specific gravity of higher than 1.09 - that is as high as my refractometer goes. Has anyone go a good start reading from this stuff? I did...