On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 09:32:33PM +0100, Lars Christensen wrote:
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> Jeg har nu stukket min lager om i en anden gærspand, og tog en OG-måling. Og
> uanset hvordan jeg vender og drejer det, så viser den under 1000?
That sounds pretty low! But not totally impossible. If you had lots of
fermentable sugars in your wort, they added to the gravity. Now the
yeast has eaten them away, so the wort has got lighter. But the yeast
has also produced alcohol, which makes the solution even lighter!
You would do well to calibrate your hydrometer. Just measure the gravity
of plain water under the same conditions, and see if you need to apply a
correction to get it to 1000...
> Jeg tog prøven i starten af omstikningen, men det skulle jo ikke kunne give
> dette resultat?
It might - your beer may well have settled into different layers, with
more of the alcohol floating on the surface, and more of the heavier
stuff falling to the bottom.
> På grund af hygiejnen har jeg stukket ned i den ny spand gennem hullet til
> gærlåsen, og ville ikke umiddelbart lukke op til øllet igen.
Fair enough, although the serious risk is from starting to cool to the
time when the yeast has established itself. By now it should be
relatively safe to take another sample.
How much was your OG, and what FG did you expect? Did the sampe taste
promising?
As far as I can see, your brew may be on the dry side, but
it will be beer anyway
-H
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