Hi all,
I've currently got my first ever brew fermenting, I'm using the Coopers DIY beer kit with the included lager. Now it's been sitting there for six days now and yesterday I took a gravity reading. It was very low, 0980 in fact, I figured that it must be pretty well done fermenting. I took another reading today, and it's dropped even lower, off the hydrometer scale even. Something tells me this isn't right. It was quite hot this week, and the temperature was at the higher end of what coopers recommended, but I would have thought the gravity would be higher than it should be, rather than lower. Is it possible that my hydrometer is screwy? Or is this not an uncommon occurrence?
Thanks!
I've currently got my first ever brew fermenting, I'm using the Coopers DIY beer kit with the included lager. Now it's been sitting there for six days now and yesterday I took a gravity reading. It was very low, 0980 in fact, I figured that it must be pretty well done fermenting. I took another reading today, and it's dropped even lower, off the hydrometer scale even. Something tells me this isn't right. It was quite hot this week, and the temperature was at the higher end of what coopers recommended, but I would have thought the gravity would be higher than it should be, rather than lower. Is it possible that my hydrometer is screwy? Or is this not an uncommon occurrence?
Thanks!