21 or 25 litres?

[Balmoral]

Hi chaps,
I just put a wash on, 21 litres at 30 degrees. Added the 6kg of sugar, put my yeast and carbon in etc. Er...25 litres? How did that happen? Did I have a senior moment and put 25 litres of water in at the start by mistake? I guess I must have done.
I don\'t suppose it will matter will it?

[hoppinmad]

That\'s correct balmoral and you haven\'t gone doolalley, the volume of the sugar is 4litres which is why you only need 21 litres of water :-p. I put about 6-7 litres of boiling water in my fermenter first off then dissolve the sugar in it completely before topping up to 25litres with cold to finish around 30%c or just under, I find that it ferments out mofe quickly to a slightly higher %age that way
Cheers, hoppin

[Bottleofrum]

Lol I was just about to say the same.

But one thing I have noticed is that some

bags 1kg of sugar are alittle more than stated

after measuring out 6kg I was left with 270g of

left over sugar. Don\'t know if that will make a

differnce but I like to be very precise
BoR

[hoppinmad]

I buy mine from bookers wholesalers in a 25kilo bag for £13.99

[Balmoral]

Blimey, I never noticed it going from 21 to 25 when the sugar was added before
Thanks for the prompt response.