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Brix

BrewerMike

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Is there a way to add brix to custom brew reports.  I would like to be able to have a preboil and post boil brix as well as the standard gravity readings also on my sheet as sometimes I check with a refractometer and sometimes with a hydrometer.
 
High,
  This turns out to be a complicated issue as Brix is not a direct conversion to SG.  The problem is that refractometers are calibrated to work with sugar water (sucrose) and not wort - which is why you need the refractometer tool to convert between the two.  As a result, I'm not sure displaying in Brix would make much sense absent the refractometer corrections used in the Refractometer tool.

Brad
 
I use a refactometer when I brew and use it take pre boil and post boil gravities and compare that to numbers I have calculated in advance.  I just wanted a number to see if I was close to estimated or not.  I can kind of stumble my way through html, is there a way to build an equation to figure it out using an a varible that would be the estimated calculated o.g.? 
 
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