Professor Green wrote:Welcome to AD TheBastardGrant.
I would have expected with the amount of sugar and water you used that it would be somewhere around the 1.07 mark. Are you sure your hydrometer isn't broken or maybe you are misreading it? Not having a go at you; the way these things are marked, they can be a bit confusing to read at first. To with an SG of 1.6 would require 40kg of sugar in 25 litres of water!
Mixing the yeast in won't hurt it, some people sprinkle it on top, others chuck it in and give it good stir. I've done both, never had a problem.
You probably could have gotten away withe 50g of yeast - one of the great things about yeast is that it multiplies so it would have still fermented out. Might have taken a little longer but it would still have done the job.
Good luck with your first run, let us know how it goes.
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Cheers,
Prof. Green.
Will do! As I'm not sure wtf I'm doing, I'll take any advice given.
Maybe I read it wrong, but I read it wrong consistently - lol!
I did turn the sugars into inverted before mixing the tomato paste into the brew.
I thought as much regarding the yeast, but adding the extra thirty made it kick off nicely.
I've no idea if this is going to work - but it's my first learning experience either way!!!