beervoid
Hophead & Pellet Rubber
Hi everyone, I've had a slow fermentation going due to pitching to low. I meassured the OG with an hydrometer as 1.081. Normally my fermentation is at terminal around day 4.
Now day 7 in it's still bubbling quiet alot so I decided to do a refractometer reading. It stated 11.5 brix which calculate to 1.024, to double check I also did a hydrometer reading and to my surprise it read 1.034 which is MUCH higher.
At first I thought perhaps cause there is still fermentation going on and I could see pieces float the reading is off. I decided to put the sample in the fridge to let it cool down, but when taking a hydrometer reading this time it was still around 1.032.
I did not take a refractometer brix reading for the OG. I calculated this to be 20.2brix calculating back from the OG of 1.081. Is this perhaps not a good way to do it?
Can fermenting wort skew a hydrometer somehow?
Any thoughts are welcome
Now day 7 in it's still bubbling quiet alot so I decided to do a refractometer reading. It stated 11.5 brix which calculate to 1.024, to double check I also did a hydrometer reading and to my surprise it read 1.034 which is MUCH higher.
At first I thought perhaps cause there is still fermentation going on and I could see pieces float the reading is off. I decided to put the sample in the fridge to let it cool down, but when taking a hydrometer reading this time it was still around 1.032.
I did not take a refractometer brix reading for the OG. I calculated this to be 20.2brix calculating back from the OG of 1.081. Is this perhaps not a good way to do it?
Can fermenting wort skew a hydrometer somehow?
Any thoughts are welcome