sugar and hydrometer readings

[rodney]

I made a sweet stout that should be ready to drink tomorrow night. SG was around 1.063, FG came in at about 1.021, which I'm mostly satisfied with. Then I got to thinking......there's a pound of unfermentable sugar in this stuff. Is that going to affect the accuracy of my readings?

 

[Bobby_M]

No, it's affecting it exactly how you'd expect. The pound of lactose is represented in the 1.021 reading. Without the lactose, I'd expect to see something like 1.013.

 

[rodney]

So to figure by ABV, should I deduct .01 for the sugar?

 

[Neonsilver]

If the pound of sugar was in there for your SG then you wouldn't have to worry about it.

 

[rodney]

Oh yeah. Logic wins again!