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by timytim
Saturday Jan 31, 2009 12:03 pm
Forum: Making beer
Topic: Hydrometer Question
Replies: 14
Views: 6407

Re: Hydrometer Question

timytim,

If it has been at 28 degrees for 2 weeks, it should be well and truly finished especially if it is a kit yeast you are using.. Also hydrometers are accurate at 20degrees, if you measure at 20degrees and its 1002 then measure at 28degrees it is going to read around 1005.. Quite a swing in ...
by timytim
Saturday Jan 31, 2009 6:50 am
Forum: Making beer
Topic: Hydrometer Question
Replies: 14
Views: 6407

Re: Hydrometer Question

Beer sounds very ready to bottle, beer would start off around 1040 and finish about 1008 as it is now, the reading doesnt go up, it goes down.. :wink:

tks for that. more confident to bottle now. When i took my first reading on day 1 though, it was the same. As i said in my last post, i was away ...
by timytim
Friday Jan 30, 2009 4:50 pm
Forum: Making beer
Topic: Hydrometer Question
Replies: 14
Views: 6407

Re: Hydrometer Question

g'day.

first time poster, first time h/brewer..

my mate laughed his head off when i asked him about the hydrometer - he just bottles e/2 wks.

But like Thyraeus, I'm into the 'science of it'. Today is the 2 wk mark, and this is what I have w/coopers draught kit:

* SP around 1008, has moved for 5 ...