http://www.brew-dudes.com/working-with-ppg-and-specific-gravity/126 Resource for home brewers created by home brewers. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.brew-dudes.com/working-with-ppg-and-specific-gravity/126#comment-75135 Mike Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:28:30 +0000 http://www.brew-dudes.com/working-with-ppg-and-specific-gravity/126#comment-75135 In the strictest sense, you should be dissolving the extract in less than one gallon, then adding water after that to get to one gallon. That is for the purest analytical way to do it, but I don't know many who do it like that and worry about that level of accuracy. Something to keep in mind, LME certainly has more volume to it than DME. I almost entirely work with DME much of the time when I did extracts. The error in SG due to volume and density is less effected by DME additions. Hope that helps! In the strictest sense, you should be dissolving the extract in less than one gallon, then adding water after that to get to one gallon. That is for the purest analytical way to do it, but I don’t know many who do it like that and worry about that level of accuracy.
Something to keep in mind, LME certainly has more volume to it than DME. I almost entirely work with DME much of the time when I did extracts. The error in SG due to volume and density is less effected by DME additions. Hope that helps!

]]> http://www.brew-dudes.com/working-with-ppg-and-specific-gravity/126#comment-75018 Matt Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:55:50 +0000 http://www.brew-dudes.com/working-with-ppg-and-specific-gravity/126#comment-75018 So, if you added 1lb of LME to 1 gallon of water the resulting solution would have a gravity of 1.037 but the resulting volume would be over 1 gallon because of the volume of LME, correct? or are you dissolving the LME in an amount of water so that the final solution volume is exactly 1 gallon? So, if you added 1lb of LME to 1 gallon of water the resulting solution would have a gravity of 1.037 but the resulting volume would be over 1 gallon because of the volume of LME, correct? or are you dissolving the LME in an amount of water so that the final solution volume is exactly 1 gallon?

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