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Evening all; I tried to find the answer to this on the ever omnipotent google, but I am not sure I know how to phrase the search. I am back to brewing after years off; when I left off I used a refracts meter that read only brix. I lost that one somewhere in a move and had to purchase a new one...

I did not..... My brain is absolutely blanking now. I know I used to use a calculator, but I thought it was because my refractometer was ONLY in Brix. I can't even remember now why or what I used. Time to go back to the basics I guess.

Great questions (apologies, still getting my feet under me) it was an all grain double IPA. I ended up using WLP041 because my supplier was out of 007. I made a yeast starter three days prior, cold crashed the yeast the night before, decanted and brought to temp. The recipe is as follows: 13...

Refractometer; I checked calibration and it’s correct.

The estimate was 1.083. My pre-boil reading was spot on at 1.05

Hello all; I took a 10 year break from brewing to raise kiddos. I brewed my first batch since the hiatus two weekends ago. Someone brought to the brew day a 13% stout and the end of the brew is a bit fuzzy. I didn’t take a gravity reading before pitching yeast. It’s been 12 days since it started...