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This is an OLD thread, but I just wanted to revisit it. I was making Sake using rice that had been inoculated in Koji (a bacteria that converts the starches in the rice into a fermentable sugar) But I was unsure whether I could take an accurate hydrometer reading. This is different from...

I'm making sake, and I have read that the conversion of starch from the rice into sugar and the conversion from sugar into alcohol are simultaneous. So is there no way to take a hydrometer reading? My hydrometer is reading about 30 s.g. No sugars were added, but I did add about half a pound of...