gravity

Good afternoon, I just made a 1/2 gallon batch of apple wine using bottled apple juice, Red Star Premier Blanc yeast and a few raisins...and a whole mess of sugar. My OG reading was higher than I meant it to go (1.20, checked twice) and after only 11 days it has apparently stopped fermenting...

I made a hopslam clone about 2 weeks ago, and I took a reading of it with my hydrometer and it came out to 1.130 which was insanely high but for some reason I just went with it. It didn't occur to me until a week later that I didn't record it after I had taken the 3.5 gallons I brewed and added...

All, I totally brainfarted when making a 10-gallon extract gose. I added 6lbs mix of briess light, and bavarian. I measured out my gravity and wrote it down without actually paying attention to how low it is. i'm about a 1.5 weeks after brew day, and i haven't taken my FG yet, but is it too...

Hello everyone, first time (extract) brewer here so be gentle please haha. I have spent the past month getting every little bit of science down for a high gravity blueberry ale (5 gallon batch) I've wanted to make, I am ready to brew on wednesday but I'm still honestly having trouble...

Hi all, Brewing a friends witbier recipe that I brewed a couple weeks ago, to great success. Last time I brewed I had OG: 1.042 and FG 1.008 Had some mishaps, today, and had OG: 1.036 I've already pitched the yeast (1.5L starter of Wyeast Strong Belgian Strong Ale, decanted), about 20min ago...

So I got a couple Plaato digital airlocks from Plaato a couple months back to do a hands-on trial/review. I did a bit of research on the science behind what they're doing and on a chemistry basis, it's solid. I ran into a number of application constraints for my fermentation equipment. If...

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Hi there, I just brewed my first big double mash imperial stout. My OG was 1150, and after 2 months I am actually at 1050, so about 64% attenuation and 13% ABV (I was short on the yeast to be honest, long story but I brew with a friend on his gear and it was a last minute thing, we ended up...

So I have done a few hard apple ciders which came out well so I figured I'd give cranberry cider a go. Typically my apple cider is down in the 1.003 - to 1.006 range by day two of fermenting under pressure. Right now my spunding valve is showing the same amount of activity / pressure I expect...

Hey all, Brewed an English Ale, today (Northern), for which I totally messed up my sparge calculation (to say math is not my strong point would be an understatement!). As the boil was going I thought the level looked a bit low, but I'm kinda new to this, being my 8th brew day, and there was no...

Hey all, Today I've been making an all grain Honey Double IPA from a recipe I found on BeerSmith. I think I've messed up in two ways. First I decided to batch sparge (it was listed as a single infusion, medium body). The Recipe called for a 10min mash out with 200F water, to mash out at 68F...

It's almost time for me to bottle my annual christmas beer, and I took a gravity reading today for the first time in a few months (it's a spiced quad that I brew over the summer and age). The last time I took a gravity reading I just used the refracto and I was getting a reading in the 1.050...

I forgot to take a FG reading on my SMaSH Pale Ale (OG 1.059), but the fermentation seemed to rip right along. I have it kegged and on tap and it tastes a little sweeter and thicker than I've made this before, but this is the first time I used S-04. Can I just draw a beaker full from the tap...

I recently brewed a Porter with a OG of 1.053 and an expected FG of 1.015 (its gluten free). After two weeks of fermentation I am sitting at 1.025 with two readings 3 days apart. If i was at 1.020 or lower i would say close enough and bottle. 10 points off seems kind of far as well as a risk...

Hello everyone, this is my first post. But i was also a follower of homebrewtalk before my sign up. So, i made my first beer on 20th of September. I used biab method, and my recipe was as following: *2.55 kg German Pale Ale *0.5 kg Munich 1 (light) *0.25 kg Melonoidin *0.325 kg Cane sugar *19...

OK, so first few batches I didn't pay attention to any of this ****, just threw some ingredients together in the right order and it worked out pretty well. But then I started reading all about gravity and how to measure it and I bought a hydrometer and I'm trying it for the first time. So in...

I brewed a beer last night, and in the haste of trying to finish up and get everything cleaned before it got too late I forgot to take an OG reading. However, I did take gravity readings of first runnings from the mash and last runnings (stupidly not the mixed wort pre-boil). I had hoped to...

Fellow Brewers, Most of the recipes I see for Ale's have fermentation time between 21-30 days. My OG was 1.054 but in 8 days it had already reached my target finish of 1.010. Does anyone have thoughts on the benefits of leaving it in the fermenter for additional time or would you recommend...

Hey everyone. So I brewed a belgium wit the other day with a OG of 1.050 which I finally hit for the first time with my equipment set up. The grist consisted of rougly 15% wheat malt, 15% flaked wheat and 20% flaked oats.. the rest was pale malt and some dextrine. My next brew I was aiming for...

Hey all im working with an Ace / Klarstein setup and im trying to dial in my efficiency. After some tweaking I finally hit my pre-boil gravity as predicted by beersmith (1.053) but after boiling for 60 minutes my gravity was only 1.062 instead of the aimed for 1.072 My efficiency is now about...