Visual Signs Beer is Ready to be Bottled

I don't disagree. But I have also done dozens of batches (even as a newbie) without a hydrometer. My whole goal is to help people jump into the game without worrying too excessively about all of the details at once. So if the OP's batch has been racked from primary to secondary, several days have then gone by and the beer has clarified, my suggestion would be to go ahead and bottle or keg.

I am sure there are many here who will disagree, and I look forward to hearing from all of them soon, below.

 

Well, I posted above:

"You state that this beer has been in the primary for 14 days. In all likelihood you have reached final gravity and you can take the chance and just bottle without taking a gravity reading."

So, no disagreement from me as I stated above.

Cheers!

 

Many people will disagree simply because it's bad advice and irresponsible advice to give. Have you ever seen a bottle explode? That's a terrible risk to take.

 

Ouch. Doesn't change my opinion or recommendation tho.

I exploded bottles exactly once. Because I miscalculated as I was scaling a batch and the amount of priming sugar, never for lack of a hydrometer.

 

Either way...a bottle grenade doesn't care why or how it was created...if it falls in the forest...it's going to hurt

 

You would have to seriously miscalculate or have tried to carbonate to the max that the bottles could hold for that to be the case. I've seen bottles explode only because of under attenuation that wasn't realized by the brewer or because of secondary fermentation from a contamination.