Refractometer

[Sean_Mc]

Thanks Eddie :

 

[cwrw]

Thanks for the answer AM
And crucially many thanks to you 31bb3 - I'll give Muddy a special request! :

 

[Sean_Mc]

Eddie meant say the refractometer came Friday and its a doddle to use. Also found THIS conversion chart for maltose

Cheers Sean

 

[cwrw]

I've got my refractometer (fruit juice typ) and calibrated it.I've just taken a random reading of a champagne style wine I've made and it's come up as 6.2 Brix - could someone enlighten me as the gravity before I've bottled was an active 1005 (from OG 1095) and then had ongoing ferment in the bottle for a good week (and tastes rather nice by the way,with exellent fizz) - I've tried beersmith for conversion but I must be assuming something wrongly ...is there a way of working out the alcohol % for dunces? :whistle:

 

[Aleman]

You can only use a refractometer on unfermented sugars. The minute you get alcohol in the mix it becomes inaccurate.

If you know the starting gravity then you can calculate the gravity using a calculator like This one

 

[cwrw]

Thanks AM, that's one of the coolest gadgets I've seen for some time - Beersmith confuses the issue for me.......Spot On! :thumb: