Official Broken Hydrometer Count

I didn't actually break it myself but it was my fault. I set the hydrometer down after taking an OG reading and forgot about it. The next day my 3 year old saw it and wanted to help me clean up, when she tried to pick it up it snapped in half, the wort had dried and glued it to the table. She almost started crying thinking it was her fault. but I assured her it was an accident.
239 + 1= 240

I've gone through 4 in the past year. 240+4=244

One. Dropped into empty thief too hard.

244 + 1 = 245

Zero for me so far. Lucky I guess.

mrduna01 said:

I've gone through 4 in the past year. 240+4=244

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dude

do you have hands or paws?

2 for me

247

I think 6 in the 19 years I've been brewing.
253

Coopers has a plastic hydro in their new DIY kit

255 gone through two in the last 15 years

I've broken one so far

256

djsethall said:

Coopers has a plastic hydro in their new DIY kit

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makebeer.net (they sell Coopers in the US) says they should have them towards the end of the summer for individual sale.

0 in 15 years.

256 + 0= 256

Those stupid floating thermometers on the other hand...

Last night I dropped mine on the kitchen floor, it hit right on the tip and bounced up about 4 inches, landed on its side and its fine. 0.

256+1=......... 257!

Dropped one for the first time earlier this year.

258.
Broke my first one a couple weeks ago.
Only noticed it when my og kept going down every time I looked at it. Pretty soon I had water. Took it out of the test tube and it was cracked on the bottom.

259.

dropped it during my last brew. the next day my refractometer showed up in the mail. lol

260

Broke the tip, didn't find it until after the while brew was over.

261
My 2 yr old son grabbed it off the counter, pulled it out of the case, and then you know.

268

I have killed 7 in 3 years of brewing... Whether through clumsiness, drunkenness or just sheer stupidity, I can kill a hydrometer....

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This is why I just bought a refractometer...

270

Two in one brew...

acefaser said:

270

Two in one brew...

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271.

Damn gravity....

beng said:

Damn gravity....

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Obey it, it is the law....

I am the law!

I broke one and the day after i told a coworker i broke mine he dropped his. +2

+1

274

+2
276

+2
278

whew! I thought I was the only one

Went a year without breaking one, then I broke two in less in than two weeks.

+2
280

Old one is garbage. Brand new one just out of the package snapped in half. Woo hoo!

+1
281

Put a carboy right on the damn thing on the counter. Baaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!

I thought I was putting mine back in its plastic sleeve... the cap wasn't on the bottom of it, and it fell through the tube right on to the floor. +1

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283

My wife killed the 8 year old hydrometer that came with my first brew kit, just last night. By dropping a pint glass on it.
Poor little guy. Buried him in an old cigar box out in the back yard.

+1
284

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286.
Sad thing is I didn't break either. Let's just say I'm the only one who touches the hydrometer now

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288

Neither happened when I was actually using my hydrometer.

The first was a couple of years ago, right after I started brewing. I was proudly showing a buddy my new toy, and dropped the hydrometer in the tube to show how I measured gravity ... but the tube was empty, so the hydrometer fell straight through air and knocked the cap out the bottom, then went straight to the tile floor.

The second was last week. Hydrometer was sitting on a nice soft towel on a shelf in my fermentation closet, but somehow I managed to knock over an empty bottle tree ... bottle tree hooked the hydrometer and rolled it right off its towel, off the shelf. Again with the tile floor.

Now I'm keeping 2 hydrometers in the house at all times.

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289

I accidentally dropped something on it. Luckily I had a spare.

+1
290

I thought I had the cap on the tube it came in. I did not, it fell go boom.

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293

I figured I would add all of my past breaks at once. First time, I unknowingly dropped the hydrometer on the carpet and later stepped on it. Second one was on the counter where I left it, but broken. I suspect SWMBO. Third one, I just dropped on the floor.

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294
... note to self, wash gently.