Tubby Beaver 209 Posted November 21, 2012 Share Posted November 21, 2012 you mean the label printer doesn't automatically tell you??!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted November 22, 2012 Share Posted November 22, 2012 There are two methods to determine alcohol by volume. The first one is really fun. You have to get together with one of your friends. Your friend is called the 'control variable' because you know that he can drink 10 pints of 5% beer before trying to hump everyone in the bar and singing karaoke with a lamp shade on his head. So while you casually sip your homebrew your friend starts plowing through the beers. Once he starts making a mess of his pick-up lines and starts dry humping a barstool you know that he has reached the 'saturation point'. You then count the number of empty pints he has littered the place with. In the case of the beer I brewed, Mr. Control Variable started running amok at 7.8 pints which gives you a 6.5% ABV. However, if you don't want to share your beer with your friend and have to watch him turn into a slobbering idiot you can use the second, not quite as fun method. You use a hydrometer to take readings when you've brewed the beer, called the 'original gravity', (before adding the yeast) and after fermentation is complete, called the 'final gravity'. A hydrometer basically measures the density of liquid and can tell you the difference between a sugary liquid (pre-fermentation) and a liquid with converted sugars, alcohol (post-fermentation). For example, when using a hydrometer, the density of water is 1.000. The original gravity of my beer before fermentation was 1.060 and the final gravity (once the yeast had eaten all of the sugar and pooped out alcohol) was 1.010. Then you have to use your brain and this equation: Alcohol by volume =(76.08 * (og-fg) / (1.775-og)) * (fg / 0.794). Or the slightly less confusing ABV = (og – fg) * 131.25 Hope that clears it up Thanks Black Mountain. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 Which beer to drink tonight is my dilemma? Hakkaisan? Echigo? Anchor steam? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Aki Aji! Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted December 23, 2012 Author Share Posted December 23, 2012 Am out of aki-aji Link to post Share on other sites
pdoull 2 Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Beer 2012 - lol - Beer is good - Japanese beer is good. Only really tried the big name stuff - Asahi and Kirin but now keen to try others so I can give some informative feed back. Keen to try aki - aji to see if it lives up to the hype & others. Thanks - advice on beer is always appreciated. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted December 25, 2012 Author Share Posted December 25, 2012 Try Sapporo classic Ebisu kohaku Those are some of the best big name beers. Of the microbreweries Echigo beers Hakkaisan beers Yona yona ale Hakodate Inawashiro Yokohama brewery Hitachino Coedo Are just a small number of great microbrews in japan Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Got some bottles of Hakkai-san in this afternoon. Have you ever been to Hakkai-san brewery, Man? It's about 10-15 minutes from the skijo, quite close to Route 17. Actually about 10-15 minutes from my house too I suppose! Bit expensive if I remember. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted December 27, 2012 Share Posted December 27, 2012 Sinking a Sapporo classic at the mo, then off to the onsen. Got some all u can eat genghis khan tonight Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted December 27, 2012 Author Share Posted December 27, 2012 Got some bottles of Hakkai-san in this afternoon. Have you ever been to Hakkai-san brewery, Man? It's about 10-15 minutes from the skijo, quite close to Route 17. Actually about 10-15 minutes from my house too I suppose! Bit expensive if I remember. Nope. Am waiting for the invite to stay at yours still. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Picked up some crappy non-beer from Kirin the other day, had a pretty winter label on it. Thought it was proper beer. Wasnt bloody awful it was. Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted January 2, 2013 Author Share Posted January 2, 2013 Picked up some crappy non-beer from Kirin the other day, had a pretty winter label on it. Thought it was proper beer. Wasnt bloody awful it was. See, too much money on apple products means you can't buy decent beer, gg. ;l Link to post Share on other sites
surfarthur 22 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Had a suntory caramel brown this afternoon, very nice Link to post Share on other sites
andee 0 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Ahhh. Suntory Times! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Try the green Sapporo classic.....very nice Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Picked up some crappy non-beer from Kirin the other day, had a pretty winter label on it. Thought it was proper beer. Wasnt bloody awful it was. See, too much money on apple products means you can't buy decent beer, gg. ;l Link to post Share on other sites
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