Hey guys, first post here because something is unclear to me about the calculator.
I want to brew a 14%-ish sweat mead. I have 1.8 kg of honey, and the tool advises a final batch of about 5 litres.
Now I have also done my own calculations and come to very different values.
1.8 kg of honey is first multiplied by 0.8 to account for the sugar content (wikipedia). Now I have 1.44 kg of sugar. According to wikipedia this honey sugar is about 55% parts fructose and 45% glucose (and some minor components which don't matter for this calculation). This amounts to a specific gravity of about 1.62 kg/L.
The sugars weigh about 180.16 grams per mole, so I have 8 moles of sugar. One mole of sugar converts to two moles of alcohol, so I have 16 moles of alcohol now.
Alcohol weighs 46.07 grams per mole, so there is 0.74 kg of alcohol. This alcohol weighs 0.79 kg per litre, so there is about 0.93 litres of alcohol.
To get 14% alcohol the total batch now needs to be 6.6 litres. This is 1.6 litres more than the tool advises!
Did I make a mistake somewhere or is the tool wrong? All values are from wikipedia.
I want to brew a 14%-ish sweat mead. I have 1.8 kg of honey, and the tool advises a final batch of about 5 litres.
Now I have also done my own calculations and come to very different values.
1.8 kg of honey is first multiplied by 0.8 to account for the sugar content (wikipedia). Now I have 1.44 kg of sugar. According to wikipedia this honey sugar is about 55% parts fructose and 45% glucose (and some minor components which don't matter for this calculation). This amounts to a specific gravity of about 1.62 kg/L.
The sugars weigh about 180.16 grams per mole, so I have 8 moles of sugar. One mole of sugar converts to two moles of alcohol, so I have 16 moles of alcohol now.
Alcohol weighs 46.07 grams per mole, so there is 0.74 kg of alcohol. This alcohol weighs 0.79 kg per litre, so there is about 0.93 litres of alcohol.
To get 14% alcohol the total batch now needs to be 6.6 litres. This is 1.6 litres more than the tool advises!
Did I make a mistake somewhere or is the tool wrong? All values are from wikipedia.