LOL, seriously...i've been here over a year
...i don't own a refractometer, i took a 30 gram sample and put it in the food dehydrator till it was dry and got 1 gram....whice would be 3.333 brix right? (being that 1 BRIX is 1 gram sugar in 100 grams water)
i'm not completely sure on OG, i didn't measure and maybe the 4lb's of table sugar i didn't stir in are still at the bottom of the 10 gallons of apple juice....(could be why my ciders are taking so long to finish...something i'll have to think about, might still be a useful experiment)
(and it's bed time, but i think i'll stir it up before hand and see if i feel anything at the bottom)
edit: now the plot thickens, or thins, depending on how you look at it, lol.... i gave the fermenter a good stir and now the hydrometer reads lower then 1...probably .998 or .999 i'll have to dry another sample tomorrow, but all these calcs are telling me ~4%, and with 10 gals of apple juice and 4lb's of sugar i get 1.060 OG...which would put this at 8%