Adventures in Alcohol Making!

There are ways to tell without the OG, but they take a bit of guesswork and doing things like drying it out and get sugar by weight, and measuring with a refractometer for BRIX units.  But, the easy way, no way to tell.

Most country wines sit around 9-10%, if you wanted a ballpark

Let us know what like when done   

Thanks... 9-10% would be perfectly acceptable!

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That's my mead made.  I remembered to take the OG this time, but quite honestly have no earthly idea how to use a hydrometer.  The reading looks like 114 to me, but there are so many different scales/numbers/lines/colours on that thing, that i am clueless.  I tried to watch some YouTube vids on hydrometer readings, but my eyes glazed over after a minute.  Fingers crossed!

Good luck!

That's my mead made.  I remembered to take the OG this time, but quite honestly have no earthly idea how to use a hydrometer.  The reading looks like 114 to me, but there are so many different scales/numbers/lines/colours on that thing, that i am clueless.  I tried to watch some YouTube vids on hydrometer readings, but my eyes glazed over after a minute.  Fingers crossed!

1.140?  Seems a tad high, but if you used a lot of honey ,could be.     Was everything well mixed?
I made mead recently (it's aging now), and my OG was 1.090

Seemed like a lot of honey to me... 1.6 kg into 4.5 litres water.  But that's what the recipe said!
Not sure what is happening... the liquid in the airlock (S-type) has moved from one side of the airlock to the other... you know how there are like bulbs that the liquid sits in. The liquid was in both of them, but the liquid has now migrated all into one of the bulbs.  My renaissance man colleague reckons it's too cold in my larder, and I should move it to an inside room.

Is it on the side with the opening or the side that goes into the bucket?  If it's on the side near the opening, that's all very normal as the C02 pushes its way out.  If it's on the side near the bucket, it could indeed be that it's too cold and there is a bit of a vacuum.

1.140?  Seems a tad high, but if you used a lot of honey ,could be.     Was everything well mixed?
I made mead recently (it's aging now), and my OG was 1.090

I’m sure you are more original gangster than 1.090

IT'S ALIIIIIIIIIVE!!!

I moved the bucket into the bedroom, and it's now gurgling away happily!

Yay!

Whoot! My Mexican Lager placed 3rd in the lagers at the Scottish National Homebrew Competition

Whoot! My Mexican Lager placed 3rd in the lagers at the Scottish National Homebrew Competition

Well done! 

Back in June I made 14 litres of elderflower wine (with some advice from PB...thanks again!) Just finished the last bottle on Friday night, and I'm sad it's gone. 

Back in June I made 14 litres of elderflower wine (with some advice from PB...thanks again!) Just finished the last bottle on Friday night, and I'm sad it's gone. 

Not to worry, it'll soon be time for elderberries!   

My Marzen beer won a gold medal in the dark lagers category of the competition I was in this past weekend