[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaonMYRODks]YouTube - Brewing with Bobby M Refractometer vs. Hydrometer[/ame]
Don't mind the year old Flanders barrel in the background.
Don't mind the year old Flanders barrel in the background.
Question...when drawing a pipette sample for preboil gravity, where it's come out of the mashtun @ around 150ish degrees, how long to you have to let the sample cool before dropping it onto the lens? You mentioned something about the refractometer temp adjusting...but will dropping hot wort on it damage it?
Do you just rinse off the lens between uses? How easy is it to clean?
Great job as usual Bobby!
[Temperature compensated refractometers] are temperature compensated by means of a bi-metal strip that expands or contracts depending on the temperature of the instrument. This bi-metal strip moves the optics inside the instrument to adjust for temperature variations.
Deathbrewer: If you do a side-by-side, please keep us updated! I plant to brew tomorrow, and will do the same.
Bobby, what make and model refractometer are you using? Where did you buy it?
Ok, I finally got this figured out in BeerSmith, thanks to Brad.
Under Tools > Refractometer > Fermenting Wort:
Input your Brix in the field, then your OG beneath it. That will give you your corrected FG
Sorry If everyone else knew this, but for some reason I made it much more difficult then it should have been...
Ive been putting my beer back in the carboy after sampling...will this be a problem if I sanitized really good?
Don't do that. Drink the sample.
LOL..didn't I give you the complete path in the other thread. Jeez.
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