my final gravity is 0??

[gbloomers]

hi, after 2 weeks of fermenting in the first stage, my brew's final gravity is 0. What does this mean, is there no alcohol in it?

 

[Psylocide]

Use the side that has the 1.000 measurements on it. If you are using the potential alcohol % side, then it will be very low after fermentation.

Even then, zero seems low.

What was your OG?

What was your recipe?

 

[gbloomers]

thanks for the reply,
It is a coopers pilsner kit. my OG was 25.
I just checked again and i think its actually 1 and i read the thing wrong. Will this be ok to bottle?
It tastes ok

 

[Psylocide]

What are you using to measure gravity? 25 what?

 

[gbloomers]

my kit does say what it is measured in, but i am using a hydrometer

 

[LLBeanJ]

This is one of those times where a picture could be worth a thousand words.

 

[Onkel_Udo]

I did a little googling and it appears from what little I can find the OG should be 1.034 and the FG somewhere around 1.005 so...

If the OP is not good at reading the hydrometer I guess it could been WAY hot and read 1.025 to an inexperienced eye and 1.010 if there were lots of bubbles and the temp for the FG sample was also a little high.

Alternatively it was a partial boil and not mixed well to get 1.025.

Of course we are all kind of guessing here.

 

[marckw]

I did a little googling and it appears from what little I can find the OG should be 1.034 and the FG somewhere around 1.005 so...

If the OP is not good at reading the hydrometer I guess it could been WAY hot and read 1.025 to an inexperienced eye and 1.010 if there were lots of bubbles and the temp for the FG sample was also a little high.

Alternatively it was a partial boil and not mixed well to get 1.025.

Of course we are all kind of guessing here.

First thought came to me was BRIX/Plato but that would be 1.105 SG, so if it is an SG read, I wonder if the scale in the hydrometer is off-I assume that paper card could slip.

 

[Calypso]

I'm assuming that either he is dropping the 1.0 or his hydrometer is doing it for him. Which would mean OG of 1.025 and FG of 1.000. Which is technically possible.

 

[joe_four_strings]

This is the scale you should be looking at.