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Servomyces Yeast Nutrient
You can’t make great beer without healthy yeast. While many...
You can’t make great beer without healthy yeast. While many brewers think that yeast gets all the...

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Maximum Strength

Recently a reader asked me to determine the alcohol content of a barley wine of his (and a very fine one it was too) which his calculations showed should have an ABV of about 23.8% using the Balling formula. The OG was about 43P and TE came in at 9.58P (lower than his estimate), which actually implies almost 26% again using the Balling formula.