Newbie question for the experienced mazers - How do you take hydrometer readings on a 1 gallon batch? Do you pull some of the must out into a tube and then return it to the jug or just put the hydrometer into the jug and try to look through the side?
Hydrometer readings
- Thread starter Taise
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Insomniac
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A.
Though I recently got a refractomter in the hope that I can stop having to do that... though my only batch since getting it was too high an OG to read on the refractometer... doh.
Though I recently got a refractomter in the hope that I can stop having to do that... though my only batch since getting it was too high an OG to read on the refractometer... doh.
fatbloke
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I sanitise the tube that the sample will go in, the hydrometer and my turkey baster.
I put the hydrometer into the testing tube jar, then draw the sample with the turkey baster. I draw enough must until I can clearly see the reading.
And yes I return the sample to the batch.
Been fine doing my tests like that so far (5 years).
I put the hydrometer into the testing tube jar, then draw the sample with the turkey baster. I draw enough must until I can clearly see the reading.
And yes I return the sample to the batch.
Been fine doing my tests like that so far (5 years).
Thanks. I have 2 batches of JOAM in their 2nd week right now and I was going to pick up 2 more 1 gallon carboys to start some pumpkin spice & apple pie meads in hopes they will be ready for Thanksgivings. The 2 new batches will be the first I need to take readings on.
fatbloke
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Well, I'd have thought that only the oldest JAO "might" be ready by thanksgiving.
If you think that its normally 2 to 3 months for the JAO to clear and fruit too drop, plus I like to age mine for 6 months plus, as it doesn't say what Joe's original recipe says, I've never found it to my taste when it's first finished.
So you'll be cutting it fine.......
