Ebob01
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I have been looking at a lot of home brew recipes recently and I was thinking that they all seemed to have too much sugar. I thought they will all either end up as rocket fuel, or depending on the yeast used will end up sweet.
My hydrometer looks like the one I have seen in almost every online homebrew store, Wilko etc. It has the blue band for 'start wine' red for 'start beer' and yellow for bottling. I think I got it on Amazon a few years ago.
On this hydrometer an sg reading of 1090 corresponds to a potential alcohol of 14.5%.
I've looked at charts online which suggest this actually corresponds to 12%.
This is potentially infuriating as it means I have been watering down all my wine, not so annoyed about it not having as much alcohol but the extra water will have affected the flavour and made it thin. I've got 12 bottles of elderberry I did last autumn which came out looking much paler than expected.
If anyone's got a spare minute could they please check theirs and post the reading? Would be much appreciated.
My hydrometer looks like the one I have seen in almost every online homebrew store, Wilko etc. It has the blue band for 'start wine' red for 'start beer' and yellow for bottling. I think I got it on Amazon a few years ago.
On this hydrometer an sg reading of 1090 corresponds to a potential alcohol of 14.5%.
I've looked at charts online which suggest this actually corresponds to 12%.
This is potentially infuriating as it means I have been watering down all my wine, not so annoyed about it not having as much alcohol but the extra water will have affected the flavour and made it thin. I've got 12 bottles of elderberry I did last autumn which came out looking much paler than expected.
If anyone's got a spare minute could they please check theirs and post the reading? Would be much appreciated.