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Olda Vancata wrote:
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> > A beekeeper friend just gave me a honeymead hydrometer for
> > Christmas. Can anyone please help me with the
> > calculations/calibrations/conversion table needed so I can also use
> > it as a honey moisture meter?
> I believe that honey have to high density to measure it that way, but
> if you insist the conversion table is :
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> water in % dens. kg/l
> 13 1,446
> 14 1,440
> 15 1,435
> 16 1,430
> 17 1,424
> 18 1,417
> 19 1,410
> 20 1,403
> 21 1,395
IMHO,
You'd be starting with a pretty heavy mead to see values like that -
unlikely to get fermentation going. My hydrometer only goes up to 1.17.
Maybe there would be a way to mix a known amount of water at a known SG
& Temp with a known amount of honey at a known temp to bring the
combined density to a value within the hydrometer's scale, measure it
and work backwards using the ratios of water to honey to calculate the
SG of the honey and therefore ..... where was I going with this???
Think I'll have a mead and think about something else.
AL
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