hinke
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Can I calibrate my new refractometer with purified water and get good result? Or do I need to go and get some distilled water?
Can I calibrate my new refractometer with purified water and get good result? Or do I need to go and get some distilled water?
Use the water you brew with.
Aha. Makes sense.
Thanks
not true.
You want your refractometer to read 0.0 using distilled water.
Can I calibrate my new refractometer with purified water and get good result? Or do I need to go and get some distilled water?
Why, the water you start with is your 0 value, like tarring your scale. if it has a brix of 0.05 compared to distilled water, than all your readings will be 0.05 short of your true values.
I'd use distilled water and don't buy it. Bring a cup of water in a sauce pan to boil and place a clean, cold lid on the pan. Count to 10, and you will have enough distilled water on the inside of the lid to do the calibration.
You will not get distilled water at all, its about the contrary. The more you boil it, the more the minerals concentrate. You would need to recuperate the steam from the boil to get distilled water. We had a small distilled water machine at a golf club I was working at 20 years ago to fill the cart batteries. Worked like I’m saying. Trust me on this.This is the idea I had and what led me to search out this thread in the first place. Glad to see someone else has already done this. I have fine water to brew with can't see buying a gallon of distilled water just for the couple of drops I need to calibrate my refracto. Thanks
You will not get distilled water at all, its about the contrary. The more you boil it, the more the minerals concentrate. You would need to recuperate the steam from the boil to get distilled water. We had a small distilled water machine at a golf club I was working at 20 years ago to fill the cart batteries. Worked like I’m saying. Trust me on this.
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