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Default a hydrometer is not necessary?

If I am fermenting on pulp,
> absolutely not. If it is just juice, in the past I didi not. But I have
> had a few batch's of juice stick after racking. Jack Keller suggested than
> this may be because I was not bringing over enough yeast. Lately I have
> been stirring a bit before racking or in some cases just moving everything
> to secondary and I have not had the problem.


Sounds like we do pretty much the same thing. I do more juice than
grapes so those always get stirred now for the same reason, I had a
few stick.

Joe

 
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