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Dick Adams[_3_] Dick Adams[_3_] is offline
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Default Brix vs SG

Wayne Harris > wrote:
> Being a Newbie, I have thousands of questions.
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> Right now my question is about measuring sugar.
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> I understand SG, how to use a Hydrometer, and how to calculate ABV.
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> I also understand the BRIX to SG relationships.
> Brix=261.3*(1 - 1/sg),
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>....
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> So, what method should i use?


I don't know which method you should use. I do know
that I make Mead and need to know the Brix of various
ingredients so that I can estimate OG which I measure
with a hydrometer.

One day digital hydrometers will be available so
inexpensively that there will be a hydrometer on
every fermenter.

Dick