earlytimes
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As long as the hydrometer is sanitized, is there a problem with just putting the hydrometer in the fermenter to get your gravity reading?
orfy said:I'd of thought it would gunk up and get full of debris which will affect the reading.
doubleb said:Taking samples is part of the fun of brewing. Don't you like to taste the progression of your brew? I love my thief.
btw, welcome to HBT
hellbender said:I personally don't. I much prefer the tast of the mature, carbonated final product but I understand how others may want to experience/evaluate the interim stages.
Hey Denny -- good to see you back again!Denny's Evil Concoctions said:I use a eye dropper and refractometer. No lost beer and less chance of contamination.
FlyGuy said:Hey Denny -- good to see you back again!
Question for you -- have you had good luck using the refractometer to measure gravity of fermenting wort? I have used the calculators that factor in the conversion of sugars to alcohol in your brix reading, but I haven't found it to be adequately precise. What's your secret?
Sampling your brews at different stages helps you in determining if anything is going wrong. Not testing it along the way is foolish IMO.hellbender said:I personally don't. I much prefer the tast of the mature, carbonated final product but I understand how others may want to experience/evaluate the interim stages.
Absolutely.homebrewer_99 said:...Many of us have 4-5-6-7 brews going at any one time. Unless we had 4-5-6-7 hydrometers that method would not be beneficial. It's just as easy to take a reading with a thief.
Denny's Evil Concoctions said:I use a eye dropper and refractometer. No lost beer and less chance of contamination.
Most people outside of Naval Aviation don't know what QA is. Quality Assurance!david_42 said:The krausen can make reading the hydrometer a bit tricky, otherwise no problem.
Samples never get wasted around here. I call it QA. Plus, as I use buckets with spigots, drawing gravity samples helps clear the trub away.
I think he meant that he dips the mug in and pulls the sample out that way. I started with a measuring cup doing that before the turkey baster dawned on me (though I of course bought a new one for it ).wortmonger said:Why are you sterilizing a mug? You aren't dumping it back in are you after you test? I ask because that would be way bad, but if you are just testing it then no need to sterilize. You should only have to sterilize the thief or other extraction means.
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