Gravity Reading after bottle conditoning
- Thread starter TheWeeb
- Start date
Help Support Homebrew Talk:
Technically, you'd need to take a gravity reading after adding priming sugar, then again after it's bottle conditioned to get proper accuracy.
However, we're dealing with relatively small amounts.
Without both readings, you can only calculate anyway. Setting that aside, sugar brews out completely, so throwing 4 ounces corn sugar in 5 gallons through a calculator says .21% ABV, or relatively little difference overall.
What you'd see with your hydrometer is roughly a 1 to 2 point change, and over 5 gallons you'd come up with a range of .2 to .4% change in the ABV.
Too small to dink with too much or worry about, from a practical standpoint.
However, we're dealing with relatively small amounts.
Without both readings, you can only calculate anyway. Setting that aside, sugar brews out completely, so throwing 4 ounces corn sugar in 5 gallons through a calculator says .21% ABV, or relatively little difference overall.
What you'd see with your hydrometer is roughly a 1 to 2 point change, and over 5 gallons you'd come up with a range of .2 to .4% change in the ABV.
Too small to dink with too much or worry about, from a practical standpoint.
yes. Besides what were you planning on doing, you'd have to degass the sample to remove the co2 to take an accurate reading anyway. There's really no point in doing it.
Dr_Gordon_Freeman
Well-Known Member
I don't think the hydrometer will work properly due to the dissolved CO2 in the beer. Just a guess though.
