Jerry

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There is nothing wrong with your hydrometers, or perhaps your references.
There seems to be something wrong with how you are using the data, and
your results.

Maybe I wasn't clear. I quite_literally_make no calculations what-so-
ever when doing sugar/alcohol management. All of my numbers are
lifted_directly_from my multi-scale hydrometers. No calculations, no
mistakes. If my hydrometers are right then I am right. If my hydrometers
are wrong then I am wrong. Doing it this way makes life very simple for
the "little guy". How about this. When you go to that symposium, pick up
a triple scale hydrometer. That way you can see what the "other half" is
using and it will be helpful when reading Berry since that is what he used.
Between now and then, visit Jack Keller's site. It is a very much
modernized version of the kind of thing that Berry used to do. He also
uses the 0.55 conversion factor and the chart on his hydrometer page
is a fair representation of the numbers you will find on that triple scale
hydrometer when you get it.


I posit that both you (I do not mean this in a pejorative or nasty sense
in any way), are calculating using equations that may be the best
available, but cannot take into account all of the factors effecting PA.

Once again, I don't_do_calculations. I simply trust my hydrometers.
The folks who designed my hydrometers did all the calculating for me,
so all I have to do is read the numbers. If these are_not_ the best that
modern science can provide, I sure wish modern science would get busy
and come out with a "new and improved" version !!

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Too many variables to calculate anything but a ballpark.

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The results may be precise, but they are not necessarily accurate.

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The systems were too
complex.

If the available hydrometers are_not_the solution for the little guy, what
exactly_do_ you recommend ??

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Frederick