2099, knocked it of the shelf while cleaning up for the day, the tube it was in offered no protection
I'm on #4. The weird thing is I've been brewing for 11 years and I broke all three within the span of a few months. I had my first hydrometer for about 5 years, and my 4th hydrometer for 5+ years, #2 and #3 only lasted a brew or two each.
Now I have a refractometer as a back-up. Hopefully I don't break that!
Brand new finishing gravity hydro - bought because I was thinking "I am the sh*t, man, gonna get myself a special hydro just for finishing gravities!". Carefully extracted out of the shipping tube in anticipation of first use. Have you ever seen how freakin thin those things are at the top? Nudged it ever so slightly sideways with the shipping tube as it was coming out - snapped right in half.
Never even got to use it once. Never even bothered to replace it. Some things are not meant for this world.
2094
Every time I think about getting one of those FG hydrometers, I just re-read this thread! I'll still probably get one at some point, and just my luck (even thought I haven't broken one in a while), that will be the one I break and have to post another loss!
*sigh* 2103.
Dunno what it is, the one I got in my beginner's kit lasted well over three years, not sure this one even made it three months. Had it sitting upright-ish in a glass so it wouldn't roll all over the dang place as I was washing up, reached to move the glass, jerked it a bit with oxiclean-slippery gloves, *tink!* the stem's cracked clean through against the rim of the glass.
um...2015 and counting.......
hey, uh...My turn!....2016
GUYS!I'll add the one I broke earlier this year, stupid construction of the tube where both ends were capped, except one end wasn't on very well. Took forever to clean up that mess.
2017
um...
hey, uh...
GUYS!
2106 by my count
2119! Broke it and the cylinder BOTH by knocking them off the counter into the SST sink... GAAHHH!
These prices in the ballpark?
$2.00 each:
$5.25 each, shipped:
The daughter is in college and I buy her lab equipment so these will just be part of her order for this class. Not a fan of the plastic ones, they seem to get cloudy after a few hot samples and I have broken them too (stepping on them).
Yes, this is the very same hydrometer I broke, I bought two of them last go around thinking I would have them forever... Luckily, I had the one for back up!
Excellent!
Mine are crazed which gives them a great look! Why not use a refractometer for your (hot) wort? 2 drops, saves a lot of time.
I now only use hydrometers for beer samples, usually to get my FG (for the record). And to double check commercial beers.
2125- Broke while cleaning.
Bought a refractometer...Never Again!
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