FG

[JammyBStard]

Bit of a Newb question and I'm not sure it should be in this forum. But as we don't have a general Brewing forum i'll put it here.

For bottle conditioned beer, should FG be taken when the beer comes out of the fermentor, or after its been bottle conditioned?

[Parva]

It's taken when fermentation has finished. Comparing the starting gravity to the final gravity will then give you your percentage of alcohol.

[jamesb]

Usually it's taken after primary fermentation has finished (i.e. in the fermentation bucket).

Adding priming sugar to bottles will increase the alcohol content slightly (HMRC have a method of working it out for duty purposes) but to be honest it's not really worth worrying about, it's fairly insignificant for us homebrewers.