Re: Frequency of hydrometer measurements
- From: chris <ccampise@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:48:42 -0000
Excellent! Thanks for the tips! It's good to know I'm on the right
track.
I'm sure you'll be seeing me around here again in the near future! :)
-Chris
On Jun 11, 7:23 pm, d...@xxxxxxxxxx (Drew Lawson) wrote:
In article <1181602631.403223.198...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
ccamp...@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Hi Gang-
I just brewed my first batch this past Saturday (actually finished at
1:00am Sunday morning!). I started with the Joy of Homebrewing as a
guide as well as the instructions that came with the kit that I
bought.
It mentions in the book to take hydrometer measurements before adding
the yeast and continue to take them daily.
Been a while since I read Papazian, but I'm thinking you may be
misreading on that detail. This is probably the "is it ready to
bottle?" method of taking readings on consecutive days and bottling
when it doesn't change. Clearly, you don't need to check for change
when it is blasting CO2 through the airlock constantly.
Anyway, take Papazian as a general guide and not a holy scripture.
(And throw away the instructions from the kit.)
Is this correct? I'm using a plastic ale pail and do I just remove
the top and dip the sanitized flask and take my measurement? I just
want to make sure that I don't have to keep the bucket under pressure
for some reason until the initial fermentation stops (2-3 days).
You can open the bucket whenever you have a reason to. It's just
that risk of contamination goes up with frequency of opening.
What about taking a sample from a glass carboy? Anyone have
suggestions on making that easy using the flask?
A "wine thief" is the simplest thing. This is something like a
large transfer pipette if you took chemistry class, or a large
drinking straw if you didn't. Dip in and it fills. Put your thumb
over the top hole and it stays filled when you pull it out of the
carboy.
As for frequency, I take a very lax approach and do only ales (and
mead, but that's a whole other thing). So I rack to a secondary
when things start to slow down (4-7 days), then bottle whenever I
have time after it has been "quiet" for a while. I check the gravity
when I rack, and that's all.
--
Drew Lawson http://www.furrfu.com/ d...@xxxxxxxxxx
". . . And I never give a reason"
-- God, as channeled by Seven Nations
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