True extract (TE)

The bulk of abstract which was not adapted to aggrandize biomass, carbon dioxide or booze can be estimated by removing the booze from beer which has been degassed and antiseptic by filtration or added means. This is generally done a allotment of a beverage in which the booze is calm for quantitative assay but can aswell be done by dehydration in a baptize bath. If the balance is fabricated aback up to the aboriginal aggregate of beer which was accountable to the dehydration process, the specific force of that reconstituted beer abstinent and adapted to Plato application the tables and formulas in the Plato commodity again the TE is

n = P_{recon}{SG_{recon} \over SG_{beer}}

See the Plato commodity for details. TE is denoted by the attribute n. This is the amount of grams of abstract actual in 100 grams of beer at the achievement of fermentation.