{"id":2906,"date":"2018-11-16T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T08:15:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"2906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/2906","title":{"rendered":"Can I use Vernier ethanol sensors to measure the amount of ethanol produced from a fermentation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"\/product\/go-direct-ethanol-vapor\/\">Go Direct<sup>&reg;<\/sup> Ethanol Vapor<\/a> (<nobr>GDX-ETOH<\/nobr>) and <a href=\"\/product\/ethanol-sensor\/\">Ethanol Sensor<\/a> (<nobr>ETH-BTA<\/nobr>) should not be exposed to concentrations of ethanol greater than 3%. To determine the amount of ethanol produced from a standard fermentation you will need to dilute your sample into a range that the ethanol sensor can measure.<\/p>\n<p>You may want to start by diluting the product of the fermentation. For fermentations using beer or baker&#8217;s yeast, dilute by a factor of at least 1:3 to start. For fermentations from wine or champagne yeast, dilute by a factor of at least 1:6 to start.  <\/p>\n<p>Calibrate the ethanol sensor just before measuring the product of the fermentation. Make sure you use appropriate standards (e.g., 1% and 3% ethanol). For best results, use volumetric glassware when mixing standards and when diluting the samples to be measured. <\/p>\n<p><B>Note:<\/B> The ethanol sensor is not temperature or humidity compensated. A fresh calibration should be done just before measuring the samples.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The and should not be exposed to concentrations of ethanol greater than 3%. To determine the amount of ethanol produced from a standard fermentation you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8971,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4886,4885,4772,4773,4786,4783,4887],"class_list":["post-2906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-beer","tag-brewing","tag-eth-bta","tag-ethanol","tag-fermentation","tag-gdx-etoh","tag-wine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8971"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}