Description
Most brewers think a final gravity of 1.010 means there's the same amount of sugar left in every beer.
It doesn't.
In this video I explain why hydrometers don't actually measure sugar, what apparent attenuation really means, and why two beers finishing at exactly the same final gravity can have completely different amounts of residual extract.
We'll cover:
Why alcohol affects hydrometer readings
Apparent vs real attenuation
Why final gravity doesn't tell you how much sugar is left
How alcohol changes the relationship between FG and body
Why this matters when designing recipes
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