Gravity of 1.1?

[Veevo]

Just bottled, and my gravity is at 1.1 does that mean my beer is very weak on the alcohol side? Is a brown ale with honey added to it. Everything was done by the book.

Very worried.

 

[Dr. Francois]

Are you missing any zeros there? What was the OG?

 

[jaytizzle]

Your FG was 1.100? What was your OG? How long did you let it ferment? What were you brewing? What were your target OG and FG?

 

[Veevo]

The target was 1.020 sorry I was missing zeros. The OG was not taken this is my first one.. The FG is 1.010 It was the the primary for 4 days and the secondary for 9 days.

 

[HolyDiver]

The lower FG actually means your beer will have a higher alcohol content. It also means that you beer will be a little dryer than intended. I wouldn't worry about it too much, you most likely still have a decent product.

 

[Veevo]

OG was 1.050 it was a kit. I just looked it up.

 

[jaytizzle]

Well if you overshot your FG but your OG was on target then you'd have higher ABV. Hard to tell what the final result is without knowing the OG, though.

 

[Frankiesurf]

OG was 1.050 it was a kit. I just looked it up.

That does not necessarily mean that you hit the OG. That just means that your OG target was 1.050.

Four days in the primary seems a bit quick. I leave mine for at least three weeks.

 

[HolyDiver]

With an OG of 1.050 I would say that 1.010 is closer to the proper FG than 1.020. Sounds like your instructions were off.

 

[Veevo]

Well my instructions said 3 to 5 days. So I went 4. And yes that would have been the target OG. So lets say I hit that or damn near close (1.050) and now have a FG of 1.010 what would that mean alcohol wise? I got freaked out when I saw on the side of my hydrometer that, that was like a little over 1%

 

[HolyDiver]

First rule of homebrew... don't trust the instruction in a kit.

 

[jaytizzle]

(1.050 - 1.010) * 131.25 = 5.25%

 

[Veevo]

By the way thanks for the speedy responses! This is a wondeful fourm!

 

[Veevo]

First rule of homebrew... don't trust the instruction in a kit.

Haha okay, well noted.

 

[Veevo]

5.25% !!! Wicked! Thats what I was hoping for!

Where does the 131.25 come from is that just a constant that never changes?

 

[Euphist]

5.25% !!! Wicked! Thats what I was hoping for!

Where does the 131.25 come from is that just a constant that never changes?

Yep.

And as for the Alcohol percentage on the hydrometer, you have to subtract the final reading from the original...so your original on that scale was probably around 6.5%. Most don't use that scale as it's hard to get accurate results.

 

[prrriiide]

I got freaked out when I saw on the side of my hydrometer that, that was like a little over 1%

Were you looking at the "potential alcohol" scale on the hydrometer? Yeah...ignore that. That's used by wine makers generally. Us knuckle-dragging brewers have to do the math ourselves...

 

[NineMilBill]

Four days from brew kettle to bottle?

Send me a link for that kit!!!

 

[MrSpiffy]

Four days from brew kettle to bottle?

Send me a link for that kit!!!

He said 4 days in primary, then 9 days in secondary.

 

[kh54s10]

He said 4 days in primary, then 9 days in secondary.

Still REALLY quick. I have had beers that didn't finish fermenting for more than 10 days. I would be surprised if the beer was really ready to transfer at 4 days.

It has been questioned many times why so many kit instructions have such inadequate, misleading instructions. The consensus seems to be that they want to sell more kits. I'm glad that I read a lot before I started brewing and had forewarning that the instructions were "weak".

 

[MrSpiffy]

I agree. I'd never transfer to secondary in under a week, minimum.

 

[HawksBrewer]

Secondary... what's that?...

 

[Dr. Francois]

Secondary... what's that?...

When the cow dies in a fire at your first dairy, you build a _________________.

 

[BrewerinBR]

if your OG was 1.050 and your FG is 1.010 that is 80% attenuation and about 5.16% ABV