>
> You can apathetically accept the errors or you can try to correct
out the
> anarchy! ;o)
>

I better ask Archie.

--
billb
Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking
human being
"Ray" > wrote in message
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>
> "billb" > wrote in message
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> >
> > so with a brix refractometer you always know the sugar %age
> > regardless of the water or alcohol content.
> >
> > Is that correct?
> >
>
> No, a refractometer is affected by alcohol. It only works directly
on
> juice. I think someone gave an equation to correct for alcohol but
I don't
> have it. Anyway, it has the same problem as the Brix reading from
a
> hydrometer.
>
> > And with a hydrometer, assuming that alcohol has a lower SG than
> > water, once alcohol enters the picture the hydrometer reading
will
> > be a little less.
> >
> > or, to put it another way, 2 pounds of sugar in a gallon of water
> > will have a higher SG reading than 2 pounds of sugar in a gallon
of
> > alcohol.
> >
> > Is that correct?
>
> That is correct. SG for water is 1.000, SG for alcohol is 0.791.
12%
> alcohol will cause quite an error.
> Ray
>
> >
> > --
> > billb
> > Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the
thinking
> > human being
> >
> >
>
>