Homemade

Guide to Homemade Wine, Beer, Cider & Mead

Alcoholic beverages; commonly beer and wines and made at home. Most often brews are made from brewing kits purchased at shops specialized in spirits. Cheap Draft features homebrew recipes, equipment requirements, and best practices needed to deliver the perfect batch!

Having taken the hydrometer reading you will see at once how much alcohol will be made by comparing the reading (specific gravity) with its potential alcohol by volume. To increase the reading add 2% oz. of sugar for each increase of 50 you require: i.e. 4t oz. for an increase of 100 and 6% oz. for an increase of 150 and so on.

There is no need to go above these figures as 9% of alcohol is plenty for beers. The illustration on page 156 shows the hydrometer in a sample and registering a reading of 1.035.