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Checking alcohol content |
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Start 1075 (+75) |
Current 998 (-2) |
You can check the alcohol content of your beer or wine if you have a start reading and a current reading. So always make it a good habit to record the gravity when you start your wine kit (turbo yeast wash, etc) - it will come in handy later when you want to calculate the alcohol content. Why and how it works - read more here. Example: Start reading = 1075 Current reading = 998 The alcohol (by volume) is simply the number of fermented units (start-current) divided by 7.4. Alcohol = (1075-998) / 7.4 = 77 / 7.4 = 10.4 % |
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This is of course the final alcohol content if your brew has stopped fermenting. To find out if it has, simply check gravity with 1-2 days in between. If you have 998 during several days your fermentation is over. IMPORTANT: This fomula will only work if you do not add water, sugar or anything else during fermentation. If you add things during fermentation - water, sugar, more grape juice etc - you can not use this simple formula. You will then have to resort to the more complicated... |
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