Best scale for grain

[big boy brewing]

What does everyone like to weigh grains on when you buy your grain in bulk? Hoping to find something on amazon deal days. Thank you

 

[Cheshire Cat]

A Salter electronic scale.

Salter 1036 BKSSDR Digital Kitchen Scale – Cooking & Baking Scales for Food Weight, Stainless Steel Weighing Platform, 5KG Capacity, Tare Function, Large LCD Easy Read Display, Measure Liquids, Black​

Costs about £15.

 

[Brockness Monster]

This is the one I have. 11 years old at this point and still going strong. Also, SWMBO uses it for shipping Ebay items and hasn't had a problem with the weights.

 

[MaxStout]

This is the one I have. 11 years old at this point and still going strong. Also, SWMBO uses it for shipping Ebay items and hasn't had a problem with the weights.

I have that same model and have found it to be a good, accurate scale. For smaller amounts, the Escali Primo is a good kitchen scale for up to 11 lbs (5Kg).

 

[z-bob]

All the cheap kitchen scales are surprisingly good.

 

[jdauria]

I too have the Ultraship model that Brockness linked to. 13 years and still going strong, well besides batteries needing replacing now and then.

 

[Willy]

I have a few scales - one for pounds of grain, and one for less than a pound. I also have another scale for pounds so I can double check on the larger weights. The scales are all good and work fine but it's easy to have a stray pencil or something under the scale that can mess it up. (Sometimes they act weird too). So.... Check. Double check. Mill and brew.

 

[Broken Crow]

You'll get a bunch of answers and like @z-bob says: a lot of them are good. Just choose one that has good reviews and look for this important detail: Make sure that if it has an 'auto-off' feature, you can disable it so that it doesn't shut off when you're in the middle of using it as most scales expect you to just throw a parcel on it, read it and move on to the next and fail to account for the fact you may be slowly measuring something. Also: If you keg or if you think kegging may be in your future, you'll want to get a scale that can handle the wieght of kegs to assist in filling them.
Where you live might make a difference to the price...when I went to buy a scale for both grains and keg-filling, the Anvil scale was cheap on amazon here in Canada for some reason....$50 cheaper than the homebrew-stores sold it for so I jumped on it with no regrets and it's been serving me well.

 

[Jag75]

This is the one I have. 11 years old at this point and still going strong. Also, SWMBO uses it for shipping Ebay items and hasn't had a problem with the weights.

This is the one I use at the brewery , and Its great. I have a little Anvil scale at home that's decent.

 

[Zadkiel]

bought this one only a couple of weeks ago and happy with it so far. Wanted a new one as my old one only measured in 1g increments and I needed a bit more precision for measuring water additions. Cheap, works well, and was accurate in the test I did (1L of water = 1KG, result was well within margin of error)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0871TQ9NK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

edit: I really didn't read the thread title properly. This isn't really going to work well for grain - even though its 5KG max is probably fine most of the time, it's not really an appropriate size & shape to weigh a bucket on.

 

[FloppyKnockers]

Never liked the digital scales. I found this one is perfect for the beer room. I have a smaller analog for hops too.

 

[MaxStout]

One neat thing I will add about the UltraShip is that the front display can be removed (it's connected to the body with a cord), so you can read it when you have some big, bulky item on the scale. They also make a 75 lb. capacity scale, interestingly it's cheaper than the 55 lb scale on Amazon at this time. But I find that the 55 has plenty of capacity for what I'm weighing, usually grain in a 5 gallon bucket.

Another task I use the scale for is weighing 20lb. propane tanks to see how much is left.

 

[day_trippr]

fwiw, I've been using this model for grain and hops and my gas cylinders since 2017. I use a much smaller scale for mash salts.

The removable display comes in handy when weighing things like suitcases...

https://www.amazon.com/AWS-Multifunction-Industrial-Digital-Shipping/dp/B07CYP8N25

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00ME8VI34

 

[HM-2]

A Salter electronic scale.

Salter 1036 BKSSDR Digital Kitchen Scale – Cooking & Baking Scales for Food Weight, Stainless Steel Weighing Platform, 5KG Capacity, Tare Function, Large LCD Easy Read Display, Measure Liquids, Black​

Costs about £15.

This was my choice for many years before moving up to a 15kg scale as I tend to brew stronger beers with grain bills in the 7-9kg range for 23L fermenter volume.

The one I currently use is advertised as a postal scale but is +/-5g accuracy which is plenty for measuring malt.

 

[kevin58]

I used to use a Rapala fish scale but now use an Ultraship Ultra 55. I noticed that this was what the guys at my LHBS use so I bought one. I am very happy with it. https://www.hopcraftsupply.com/products/ultraship-55-scale?_pos=1&_sid=7054b5ef8&_ss=r

 

[BrewerofBeers]

I use a $10-15 electronic kitchen scale. It's quite precise all the time. I usually don't weigh more than 5 lbs at a time, and it's good down to the 0.1 gram in case you're measuring spices or other additions like vitamin C.