Originally published at GeekBeer . Please leave any comments there. On Dan’s recommendation, I’m going to start taking gravities of beers I drink. I’ll start with verifiable brews. I did Redhook’s Blackhook this evening.
My reading was 1.012. I took it while the beer was 45 degrees, so I subtracted .005 from the reading, for 1.011 or thereabouts. The beer was still mostly carbonated.
Redhook says the OG for this brew is 1.0498. Using the formula on the beer gravity wikipedia page ,... read more
