Broke my very first hydrometer

[Kosch]

I know, hydrometers are apparently suicidal. It's just a thing. But I've had mine for over 8 years. I've broken like 5 sample cylinders (both glass and plastic), but my hydrometer had survived all those years.

Just last Friday, as it was on the dish mat drying, a cord bumped a small cutting board which fell into a metal tumbler which toppled over and just snapped the tip off my beloved hydrometer.

Also no homebrew ready for drinking, no beer in the fridge, so had a couple glasses of wine earlier and now sipping a double Wild Turkey 101 on rocks. Sad day. Sad week. Sad year. actually sad past few years but still alive and brewing so I got that going for me. Jobless in two days and looking forward to a break to reset before finding my next path.

 

[bracconiere]

 

[day_trippr]

Book it!

Cheers! (Sorry for your loss )

 

[Toy4Rick]

Personally, been brewing for 7 years, never broken one yet. My buddy has broken like 5 in the past 5 years so I gave him mine since I haven't used it in a while. He broke it within a week

Some people have all the luck, might be all bad but it's still luck

 

[bracconiere]

Some people have all the luck, might be all bad but it's still luck

i got a precision one now...wish me luck! (and i mean good luck!)

 

[bracconiere]

Book it!

Cheers! (Sorry for your loss )

Is there something like memorial day for them? solemn remembrance, maybe pour a homebrew on the ground? i'm always hearing there's a day for everything it seems, we need to petition for a "Bust a weppy for a lost hydrometer day" (pun intended)

 

[Imhoppy]

I watched, in super-slow motion, my hydrometer roll off the countertop and break into a million pieces when it hit the hard tile floor. All the King's horses And all the King's men, Couldn't put my broken hydrometer together again. So I bought another one.

 

[Toy4Rick]

Buy one, break one, buy one break one... why repeat the vicious cycle? If you buy 2, or hell why not, buy 6, my guess is you will still have all of them like.... forever. It's just how things work

Cracked windshield for nearly a year, get a ticket, fix windshield and get another chip within a week

Go figure