"Wade and Sheri" <wadesheri@charter.net> wrote in message news:<vljq5jbdbu30fc@corp.supernews.com>...[color=blue]
> Curious if anyone knows of a conversion formula from Brix to gravity? I
> bought a refractometer and have yet to find a good conversion. Or, if anyone
> knows how to calculate alcohol content just using Brix.[/color]

There's a conversion table between Brix/Plato/cane sugar% and S.G. at
the front of a book called *Brewing* by Michael J. Lewis and Tom W.
Young. If you're mathematically inclined you may be able to plot the
intermediate values from the following:
1.003 = 0.6; 1.020 = 5.1; 1.040 = 10.0; 1,070 = 17.0; 1.105 = 24.8;
1.115 = 27. I guess it's easy enough to do as a graph; or maybe to
your agile brain a formula will leap out of these data, but I'm afraid
I can never quite remember even Celsius to Fahrenheit, so don't ask
me.

If you're not quite so mathematically disposed, I'm in a good mood,
and I'll copy out the whole thing for you: it's only 36 short lines.
But I can't guarantee to do it the same day!

The book, by the way, is intended for trainees in the commercial
brewing industry: one of those highly technical "good reads" you've
got to be in the mood for. I'm still waiting, maybe five years after
it cost me a quid in the cheapie bookshop.

Anyhow, why Plato? Are they thinking of the Australian philosophers'
song? And isn't Brix a concealed weapons expert? No, that's
Blix...same thing, perhaps.

Mike.