Hi everyone new brewer here!
So I made a few 1 gallon ginger beer brews that came out amazing, I just boiled grated ginger, lemon juice, sugar and water on the stove, let it cool and threw it in a 1 gallon carboy, with the grated ginger in the carboy. After two weeks the ABV had gone from 1.060 to 1.016. I strained the ginger out during racking and bottling stage. ( I also did batched without the ginger in the carboy but found it stronger tasting left in for fermentation )
Now I have an 11Litre glass carboy, I have attempted to make multiple brews but each time I try the hydrometer keeps giving weird readings, in my latest attempt I removed the lemon juice as I read it can throw the PH levels. The brew started at 1.070 and after a week of fermenting really well and the airlock bubbling about 2 seconds apart its reading 1.076.
How can I possibly be getting a higher reading after a week of fermenting?
Its doing my head in, I am making it the exact same ratio in the 4.5L brew as I am in the 11L but my hydrometer is throwing me off.
Hope someone can help clear this up for me.
Thanks Heaps
Jack
So I made a few 1 gallon ginger beer brews that came out amazing, I just boiled grated ginger, lemon juice, sugar and water on the stove, let it cool and threw it in a 1 gallon carboy, with the grated ginger in the carboy. After two weeks the ABV had gone from 1.060 to 1.016. I strained the ginger out during racking and bottling stage. ( I also did batched without the ginger in the carboy but found it stronger tasting left in for fermentation )
Now I have an 11Litre glass carboy, I have attempted to make multiple brews but each time I try the hydrometer keeps giving weird readings, in my latest attempt I removed the lemon juice as I read it can throw the PH levels. The brew started at 1.070 and after a week of fermenting really well and the airlock bubbling about 2 seconds apart its reading 1.076.
How can I possibly be getting a higher reading after a week of fermenting?
Its doing my head in, I am making it the exact same ratio in the 4.5L brew as I am in the 11L but my hydrometer is throwing me off.
Hope someone can help clear this up for me.
Thanks Heaps
Jack