I just measured experimentally, and it seems that 10-to-1 ratio of water to DME by weight really does make around 1.040 gravity as measured by a hydrometer (could be closer to the calculator's 1.036 in reality, there's plenty of room for error in my process). So, it appears I'm just plain...

That could be essentially what's happening, if folks are being less-than-accurate with the term "gravity" in the context of starters. Technically, adding 10g of salt would change the gravity just as much as 10g of sucrose or 10g of maltose (I repeat: unless I'm getting something horribly...

Hi Folks, I was playing around with the yeast pitch rate and starter calculator, when I noticed the DME numbers seem... more than a little off. When told to calculate for 1L of starter at 1.036 gravity, it suggests using 3.6oz / 102.7g of DME. Perhaps I'm simply misinformed, but as I...