Shot Hydrometers?

Petunia · Mar 20, 2008

Hey, I have a question.

I have 3 hydrometers. I just brewed a couple of beer kits and two of the hydrometers just shoot way up to an unregisterable degree. One will read true. What is the deal with the other two? There seems to be no discernible difference between any of them.

Thank you,

Jennifer

Fingers · Mar 20, 2008

Wow, that's pretty poor odds. Did you try them in ordinary water? The good one will read 1.000. Personally, with odds like that I'd suspect any one of the same style. Can you afford a refractometer?

carls47807 · Mar 20, 2008

could the paper inside have come loose?

i would say check for cracks, but this would not cause the hydrometer to rise too high, if anything it would cause it to sink.

is the s.g. scale the same on all 3 hydrometers?

BigKahuna · Mar 21, 2008

Make sure that they are not Proof meters...designed to show alcohol content of distilled spirits. They look the same, but will nearly float right out of the jar in plain water.

david_42 · Mar 21, 2008

What's the scale? They may be finish hydrometers and only read .980-1.020. The bulbs would be 2-3 times as big as well.

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