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Hi!

I'm brewing up my first batch in Europe as I type - it took me a while to get all the equipment together, but i've got it and it's finally brewday! I picked up a hydrometer at the (relatively) lhbs, pulled it out today and found this.

Your hydrometer looks like it is using Plato Degrees as opposed to Gravity readings. This should help...

http://plato.montanahomebrewers.org/

Thanks for your reply, that's really helpful! - on an unrelated note, this is actually a dbl post, do you know how to delete threads, I can't figure out how! Cheers!

Me neither....lol I don't think you can.

haha, wtf!? webmaster, where are you?

It it is, as has been pointed out, a Brix or Plato hydrometer. It should say Bx or °P on it somewhere and there should be an indication as to the temperature at which it's supposed to be used. To convert roughly to SG multiply the reading by 4 and put 1.0 in front of that e.g 10 Bx --> 40 -->1.040. Below 2.5 put 1.00 in front e.g. 2 --> 8 ---> 1.008.

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Webmaster, there you are. Thanks for both of those tips!

hmm, couldn't figure it out and felt a bit thick, but here's the reason - I'm not a member so no deleting allowed :/

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f14/how-do-i-delete-post-209475/