If a beer tastes too sweet before bottling, will bottle conditioning help it or will it remain too sweet?
Hmm. I heard somewhere that you should use a hydrometer after the beer is done fermenting. Refractometers are only accurate with unfermented wort.
Refractometers are only accurate with unfermented wort.
The beer you tasted was the beer left in the bottling bucket? Very probable the sweet taste was the priming sugar. The yeast will ferment this out during conditioning.
When I rack to the bottling bucket, I make sure the wort going in is swirling to kinda mix together.
You think there could have been excess sugar on the bottom?
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I actually was filling the last bottle and there was only about 5 oz left so that's what I sampled.
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I use Simplicity for priming
The beer you tasted was the beer left in the bottling bucket? Very probable the sweet taste was the priming sugar. The yeast will ferment this out during conditioning.
but hydrometers are much more straightforward to use...and cheaper too!
But I got my refractometer for Christmas. So really, it was cheaper than the two hydrometers I've purchased.
I opened a bottle and took a gravity reading with a hydrometer. With the priming sugar it read 1.022. Maybe a little high but not terribly excessive.
I think I'm just being a worrying woman......and I'm not.......a woman that is
But I got my refractometer for Christmas. So really, it was cheaper than the two hydrometers I've purchased.
Yeah, me too.
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