SG with yeast

[ryanmanchester]

If you take a gravity reading after pitching the yeast cake from the last batch, will the yeast affect the reading? If so, does anyone know how much it can affect it?

[Jim]

As long as you mean withing a few minutes to an hour, I woudn't think there'll be any measurable difference (not with a hydrometer, anyway).

[ryanmanchester]

Looks like I've got a 1.070 beer going then

[ryanmanchester]

Certainly is! I was aiming for something around 1.056 like my last brew I was even planning on maybe going lower but I didn't manage to filter enough water in time. I based the recipe on the efficiency of my last brew.. somewhere around 68% .. Promash is telling me it's more like 85 - 92% this time round in my new system but I'm not sure how much wort I collected exactly just yet because the fermenter I'm using doesn't have any markings on it (I'm using my cleaned out stainless mashtun, minus false bottom.)

Oh well, looks like I'll get to see what 7% ale tastes like then!

[ryanmanchester]

[ryanmanchester]

I just hope it doesn't finish too sweet though.. there's a lot of hops in there that I don't think would work in a sweet ale.

[ryanmanchester]

Ah yeah. Should be about 33 IBUs. Maybe just a little on the low side for this one though?

[ryanmanchester]

That's true, as long as I can judge it well enough in secondary.

Maybe I could rack some to a bottle as fermentation comes to an end just to pressurise it. I noticed on the last brew that when it's flat it tastes nothing like the end result. (I had the lid on, slightly pressurising it in primary and supped a little from there.. very nice )