Humm, wondering if anyone has thoughts or guidelines on brewing from sparse vague recipes....
I have a tendency to want to follow the instructions given with old recipes even when those instructions are very
incomplete by todays standards....I know I should know better, but if it says ferment 5 days, bottle and drink 2 weeks later; I tend to ferment 5 days, (irrespective of current gravity, bottle and drink 2 weeks later... that may be fine for beer, but same goes for SODAs... Bottle bombs are the concern here, as with my tendency to like things on the sweet side, the residual sweetness is often much higher than w/ beer. What refractometer reading should be safe for bottling (naturally carbonated) sweet sodas (always less than 5% abv) at?
refractometer not hydrometer, so
Think I am rambling now
I have a tendency to want to follow the instructions given with old recipes even when those instructions are very
incomplete by todays standards....I know I should know better, but if it says ferment 5 days, bottle and drink 2 weeks later; I tend to ferment 5 days, (irrespective of current gravity, bottle and drink 2 weeks later... that may be fine for beer, but same goes for SODAs... Bottle bombs are the concern here, as with my tendency to like things on the sweet side, the residual sweetness is often much higher than w/ beer. What refractometer reading should be safe for bottling (naturally carbonated) sweet sodas (always less than 5% abv) at?
refractometer not hydrometer, so
Think I am rambling now