Making homemade beer can be fun and a lot of work initially. Once you get the hang on it then you are all set to become a small home based private industry. You could use the beer of your personal use or distribute it to friends and family. Either way you are on your way to becoming a Pro-Beer maker. Now how to test alcohol content in homemade beer and know what you are drinking too?

After making home-brewed beer you want to find out how much alcohol it contains. Hydrometer is what is used to compare all the other ingredients in the beer. Simple calculations can be used to get an idea of how to test alcohol content  in the homemade beer to know what percentage alcohol you are drinking.

Requirements: Hydrometer and Test jar.

Procedure:

1. Take a test jar that is larger in diameter than your hydrometer. Before the fermentation process begins sanitize the hydrometer and place it on a flat surface. Draw out a sample of clean beer from the container just leaving behind the solid particles. Now fill the test jar on the hydrometer 80% full.
2.  Release the bubbles by lowering the hydrometer into jar. Take the reading when hydrometer is floating in the jar in the middle.
3. Look at the surface level of the liquid and read the potential alcohol scale on the hydrometer. Record measurement.
4. Now follow the same procedure as before to take the reading. Take another reading after your beer is done fermenting. Now subtract the potential alcohol reading after fermentation. This number is the percentage of alcohol in your beer.
5. If the reading was 13% before fermentation and 2 5 after then the homemade beer you have just made is actually 11% alcohol.

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