Bents wrote:Thanks Sam.
My Alcometer has always been fine to use with previous washes (Turbo's) normally is about 15% when its finished fermenting, so thats what has me a little confused.
The Alcometer I'm guessing works on SG just has a scale that is in % instead of SG. It is the same process in terms of a Hydrometer (weighted glass floating scale)
Cheers
I am aware of how they work mate ;-)
Alcohol that is distilled is a lower SG than water, the higher alcohol content the lower it is.
Wash is generally higher SG than water until the point it is fermented dry and there is enough alcohol to drop the density below water where you can have a wash finish at 0.990
Therefore your alcometer is useless in a wash for determining alcohol content. You could theoretically make your own graduations on it but why bother if there is a tool already cheaply available to do the job?