Official Broken Hydrometer Count

[SteveH aka shetc]

Ole fumbling hands drops another one

1204

 

[troy2000]

Broke my first one last weekend. Went to lay it on a tile countertop, and the top didn't clear the small jar I was reaching past. It rolled off, hit the tile and a small piece of glass came off - losing that tiny bit of weight made it read high...

1205

 

[Hobanon]

Girlfriend dropped mine on the garage floor last week.

1206

 

[sweetcell]

1207

tip of mine snapped off as i was shaking it to dry. amazon prime'd myself a new one.

 

[WeimBrew]

Count another down. The bottom tip got stuck in my thief
1208

 

[WildGingerBrewing]

Make it 1209. I was drying one off last Saturday and it snapped. Shoved a nice sized sharred of glass into my finger too. Since it was brew day, and i had been drinking, i bled profusely. Good thing i had a spare so i could take a reading.

 

[myerstyson]

1210. I lightly placed mine in the wine thief to test FG on my doppelbock. WOndering why the thief didn't keep any of the beer in the tube, so I just kept dipping it.

Ends up most of the tiny weights and some glass got in the carboy. Had to dump the entire 5 gallons.

 

[Brauer]

1213
I have broken 3 in the last few months!

 

[RmikeVT]

I've broken 2 in 3 years. One rolled off the counter and the other was bizarre. I was squeezing the sleeve to pull out the hydrometer and was squeezing the part with the bulb in it, so when I pulled the sleeve apart the hydromter bulb was between my thumb and forefinger...anyway it broke.

 

[ChiefIlliniwek]

1216.

Sunday night. Had it sitting on a table in my basement drying from bottling day last Saturday (don't all hydrometers take 8 days to dry?) I set a case of beer on the table and the hydro rolled off. Bye-bye hydrometer.

 

[lhommedieu]

Stepped on mine on Sunday. It was in its case and had fallen on the floor in the closet.

 

[huntb]

Stepped on mine on Sunday. It was in its case and had fallen on the floor in the closet.

^^2017

+1 from a couple months ago

2018

 

[max384]

I think mine must be made of bulletproof glass. I dropped mine off the counter onto the cement floor last night and it bounced and survived somehow. So, I'm still using the same hydrometer I bought five years ago!

Still 2018

 

[danomyte]

1st time checking in to this thread. i've busted 2 in the last few months
so..2019

 

[fuelish]

Just discovered my remaining hydrometer was busted taking a gravity sample this past weekend, so went out and bought 2 more (always have a backup!!!)
= 2020

 

[max384]

1st time checking in to this thread. i've busted 2 in the last few months
so..2019

2018 + 2 = 2020

Just discovered my remaining hydrometer was busted taking a gravity sample this past weekend, so went out and bought 2 more (always have a backup!!!)
= 2020

so, 2021

 

[ruger988]

When I started brewing I bought a spare hydrometer because of all the stories I'd heard. Managed to go two years without breaking one. Then I broke both of mine in one day.

So I guess that's 2022 and 2023..

 

[PlexVector]

Dang it! I had to click on this thread and now I'm sure its going to jinx me. I've had mine over 30 years (antique?). It's dooooomed!

 

[Chadwick]

I must be lucky. From the time I was helping my father brew beer at the age of 13 until now, I have not broken any hydrometers. My friends and family seem to be able to break one by looking at it. I have never actually broken one myself.

 

[PlexVector]

I must be lucky. From the time I was helping my father brew beer at the age of 13 until now, I have not broken any hydrometers. My friends and family seem to be able to break one by looking at it. I have never actually broken one myself.

You're doooomed! :smack:


I'm glad I'm not superstitious...knock on wood.

 

[Keith]

Broke mine a few months ago. Set it aside in the drying rack to dry and hit it ever so slightly with my arm and snapped it right off.

2024

 

[Seismogenic]

2025

Nothing even happened to it, so far as I can tell! I lowered it very very very carefully into the sanitizer, it was definitely still in one piece when I let it go, and when I went to take it back out, it had snapped.
At least I did get an OG measurement, and at least I'd hit my numbers correctly...

 

[oogaboogachiefwalkingdeer]

Who uses one anyway?? Airlock is where the action is.

 

[BGBC]

Who uses one anyway?? Airlock is where the action is.

Serious post? Or trolling?

 

[oogaboogachiefwalkingdeer]

Ya I am a 700 post troll. Usually just follow the recipe wait three weeks and bottle. Two weeks after they carb they vanish like magic. I do have a hydrometer I check it ever so often to see if I need to dust.

 

[DoctorMemory]

2026

Mine was cracked and giving me false readings. I had three brews that wound up with low gravities, after several months of hitting my numbers consistently. Finally noticed moisture in it and discovered the crack. Bought two replacements and I'm back to hitting my numbers again. Well, except for my first BIAB batch, but that wasn't a hydrometer problem...

 

[beergolf]

2027.

Went to measure OG, picked it up and hit a glass measuring cup with it. CRACK.

It did last a long time, this was brew # 196. I did happen to have a back up.

 

[DogStar]

I've broken about five over the years because I'm really clumsy.

I often forget to measure the OG. It doesn't bother me. When I'm using a familiar recipe I know what the OG is going to be within a point or two. I could be a bit further out when making something different but I'm never more than two points out when I do measure.

When there's no activity I taste it for sweetness and wait a couple of weeks before tasting again and bottling. I'd prefer to measure but it's not the end of the world if I don't.

Anyway - 2030

 

[brewbama]

2030 + 2 = 2032

 

[Ivypunx]

2033. I broke one and bought a refractometer to avoid this issue of repeated broken hydrometers