FUCK GRAVITY

Your gravity tells you the alcohol percentage of your beer. You measure prior to the boil, perform some calculation, and hopefully you get close to the number your recipe specifies. How close you get to that number is a measure of your efficency - essentially how well you did extracting the sugars from your grains

Yeah but we fuck this up every time. Which is why we consistently purchase extra malt to throw in right before the boil. If we knew what we were doing this wouldn't be a required step, but we don't, so it is.


Our gravity was at 1.3, and the recipe called for 1.6. So we are way off. BUT we have no good way of measuring exact, i think the calculations are off somehow, plus i mean it always ends up fine, so i couldn't care less what some recipe author thinks my efficiency is. how about fuck you and your efficiency LOL

Photo above is us making up for our horribly inefficient sugar extracting skills by just pouring in however much extra malt we want whenever we want and however we want, lawya.

Then into the turkey fryer and on with the boil