Honey and gravity

A hydrometer floats higher in a sweeter liquid, and the number it reads is specific gravity: water is 1.000. Brewers count the part after the point in points, so a must of 1.100 has 100.

Honey gives about 35 points for each pound dissolved in a US gallon. In metric that is about 292 points for each kilogram in a litre of finished must. So 1.30 kilograms made up to one gallon, 3.8 litres, starts at 1.100, and 6.48 kilograms in five gallons does the same.

The 35 is a convention. Real honeys run from 33 to 39, mostly with their water: honey is 17 to 20 percent water, and water is not sugar.

In this game honey counts at the full 292 points.