TimmyR41
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I've been reading the instructions that came with my hydrometer as well as some different things online and I'm just a little confused right now.
I am currently fermenting a Czech Pilsner and it is my first brew. I did it from an extract kit that I got from my local home brew store. On the kit it says that the inital gravity is supposed to be around 1.05 and the final gravity should be somewhere around 1.015.
So this is a two part quesiton. My initial gravity was 1.041 after temperature correction. (I measured after I mixed the wort with the 3.5 gallons of water in the fermenter bucket and before I pitched the yeast) What did I do to be off by that .09? Is .09 alot to be off by?
Part 2, Does this mean that if I hit my final gravity of 1.015 the beer will be 3.4% ABV? To determine that I used the equation: (initial gravity - final gravity) x 131. If that is right it would also mean that if I had done the recipe correctly it would have been 4.5% ABV.
Thanks in advance for the help.
I am currently fermenting a Czech Pilsner and it is my first brew. I did it from an extract kit that I got from my local home brew store. On the kit it says that the inital gravity is supposed to be around 1.05 and the final gravity should be somewhere around 1.015.
So this is a two part quesiton. My initial gravity was 1.041 after temperature correction. (I measured after I mixed the wort with the 3.5 gallons of water in the fermenter bucket and before I pitched the yeast) What did I do to be off by that .09? Is .09 alot to be off by?
Part 2, Does this mean that if I hit my final gravity of 1.015 the beer will be 3.4% ABV? To determine that I used the equation: (initial gravity - final gravity) x 131. If that is right it would also mean that if I had done the recipe correctly it would have been 4.5% ABV.
Thanks in advance for the help.