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COMMENTS


from OJIISAN on 2010-07-20

It seems that the math in the example is a little off. Using the 95 Deg F example, the correction to the specific gravity would be 0.0051 added to 1.040 for total corrected specific gravity of 1.0451, which is quite a bit different from 1.091. John Palmers book How to Brew, "Appendix A: Using Hydrometers" - has a good example to follow:

For example:
If the wort temperature is 108 °F, and the gravity of the sample is 1.042, the Delta G value that would be added is between .0077 and .0081. Rounding it off to the third decimal place gives us .008, which is added to 1.042 yielding 1.050.