Hydrometer Advice Needed

[bracconiere]

The benefit of a smaller hydrometer could be smaller sample sizes if you have an equally small test tube. Just make sure you put your reading glasses on.

maybe so, but i just used it on some actively fermenting sugar wash to make sure i used enough wheat germ tea to get it going...


and the co2 really does raise it up quite a bit! need to give it a good spin and read it pretty quick....other wise it'll be floating on it's side, hyperbolic maybe, but it sure does raise it up a bunch....but with a quick spin it still works...

i'm still thinking this is as close local to order? it's only disadvantage is it only goes to 1.045....which sorta is good enough for SOME beers.....

https://www.daraz.pk/products/lacto...0e.searchlist.list.26.3b1f20e4MgPDBf&search=1

i'd order one...but here it'd be the equiv of 12,000 rs..... i'm a nice guy, but not THAT nice!

 

[Bad DNA]

and the co2 really does raise it up quite a bit! need to give it a good spin and read it pretty quick....other wise it'll be floating on it's side, hyperbolic maybe, but it sure does raise it up a bunch....but with a quick spin it still works...

B - I'm curious. At the end of your fermentation, how much carbonation do you have in the fermenter? With an air trap, the beer should be at 1 atmosphere of pressure, with no significant dissolved CO2 to bubble out during SG readings.

 

[bracconiere]

B - I'm curious. At the end of your fermentation, how much carbonation do you have in the fermenter? With an air trap, the beer should be at 1 atmosphere of pressure, with no significant dissolved CO2 to bubble out during SG readings.

this is a sugar wash, and i need to make sure the ferment is going as it should, so i need to take a reading a few days while it's active to make sure the gravity is dropping....

 

[Bad DNA]

this is a sugar wash, and i need to make sure the ferment is going as it should, so i need to take a reading a few days while it's active to make sure the gravity is dropping....

OK -- so wouldn't the presence of CO2 burping through the air trap be an indicator? Or you are seeking more analytical precision?

 

[bracconiere]

so wouldn't the presence of CO2 burping through the air trap be an indicator? Or you are seeking more analytical precision?

it would if it was airtight, and yes. pretty sure it's dropping about 10 points a day now, so ~4 days more at that rate....

 

[BrewingWisdom]

@bracconiere finally it arrived after a long wait of almost 3 months. It's a triple scale hydrometer with a brix reading , gravity reading and abv percentage reading. With high gravity beer and wine markings. Came with a 250 ml flask. Tested it with water and it's showing a gravity of exactly 1.000. The glass is a bit thicker than I expected. Seems to be working fine.

 

[bracconiere]

The glass is a bit thicker than I expected.

first of all! right on, just know all it will only ever show you is the BRIX & ABV scales....and that glass might be deceiving you, a slight bump against the counter will bust it, and if it took 3 months? might be a good idea to send for 'reinforcements' now!

 

[BrewingWisdom]

first of all! right on, just know all it will only ever show you is the BRIX & ABV scales....and that glass might be deceiving you, a slight bump against the counter will bust it, and if it took 3 months? might be a good idea to send for 'reinforcements' now!

If you had looked at the pics I attached in post no 96 , it also shows gravity readings.
Yeah maybe you are right about that glass part.
And I am lost at the "reinforcements" part.

 

[bracconiere]

If you had looked at the pics I attached in post no 96 , it also shows gravity readings.
Yeah maybe you are right about that glass part.
And I am lost at the "reinforcements" part.

a few things you'll learn as a proud owner of a triple scale hydro....it NEVER shows you the scale you want to see, and if you only have one, they tend to get lonely and commit suicide!

 

[BrewingWisdom]

a few things you'll learn as a proud owner of a triple scale hydro....it NEVER shows you the scale you want to see, and if you only have one, they tend to get lonely and commit suicide!

Then maybe he should get laid or get a GF so he doesn't feel lonely

 

[bracconiere]

here's just a few of mine...they never get broken! because they're never lonely.....and i have proof hydros, triple scale, plain form, salinity...none of them ever show me what i want to see!

 

[BrewingWisdom]

.it NEVER shows you the scale you want to see,

I guess the same goes for a refractometer. It's a almost estimate not exact reading I agree. I shouldn't have used the word "exact" it was slightly below 1.000.

 

[bracconiere]

Then maybe he should get laid or get a GF so he doesn't feel lonely

maybe your luck will be better, go ahead put it in the water and give it a spin to get a reading see where it stops!

i can almost guarentee it will either be ABV or BRIX.....and you'll learn to cuss at it!

 

[BrewingWisdom]

maybe your luck will be better, go ahead put it in the water and give it a spin to get a reading see where it stops!

That's exactly what I did twice.

 

[BrewingWisdom]

proof hydros

Aren't they for the distilled spirits?

 

[bracconiere]

That's exactly what I did twice.

ever though of getting a job playing roulette then?

Aren't they for the distilled spirits?

yes they are...measuring pure water and ethanol...

 

[BrewingWisdom]

yes they are...measuring pure water and ethanol...

That puts both of us in the same club. Perfectly law abiding citizens

 

[BrewingWisdom]

i can almost guarentee it will either be ABV or BRIX.....and you'll learn to cuss at it!

So you are trying to say I wasted money on a triple scale hydro or should have ordered the plain one??

 

[bracconiere]

That puts both of us in the same club. Perfectly law abiding citizens

sovreign citizens that don't like bootlegers!

So you are trying to say I wasted money on a triple scale hydro or should have ordered the plain one??

well, here it's hard to find a plain one...not a waste of money, it does HAVE the SG scale, but a calculator will tell you the ABV better, and BRIX is some weird archaic scale nobody uses really?

i mean remember you have to remember the ABV when you pitch the yeast into your beer along with the OG, then subtract the ABV when it's done fermenting from the Original ABV reading anyway....i use software that does all that for me....

 

[BrewingWisdom]

sovreign citizens that don't like bootlegers!



well, here it's hard to find a plain one...not a waste of money, it does HAVE the SG scale, but a calculator will tell you the ABV better, and BRIX is some weird archaic scale nobody uses really?

i mean remember you have to remember the ABV when you pitch the yeast into your beer along with the OG, then subtract the ABV when it's done fermenting from the Original ABV reading anyway....i use software that does all that for me....

That's no brainer. I will just take the OG , after fermentation the FG.Subtract OG from FG *131.25 and here is your ABV.

 

[DBhomebrew]

BRIX is some weird archaic scale nobody uses really?

Like metric?

 

[bracconiere]

Like metric?

when's the last time you heard someone singing this while complaining about, effec problems, HIGH FG, stuck ferments?

 

[BrewingWisdom]

well, here it's hard to find a plain one

Well they are found in abundance from where I ordered my hydro. From Chinese suppliers. Just curious why they are hard to find in US?

 

[bracconiere]

Just curious why they are hard to find in US?

not sure but i have to spend about 3 times as much on a plain form one here....i'd imagine because the only reason anyone want a hydro here is to make ABV's so they want that ABV scale.....

where as where you're at they'd have a scale for years in prison or lashes from a cat of nine tails or something? i don't even want to know what the proof one would read!

 

[BrewingWisdom]

not sure but i have to spend about 3 times as much on a plain form one here....i'd imagine because the only reason anyone want a hydro here is to make ABV's so they want that ABV scale.....

where as where you're at they'd have a scale for years in prison or lashes from a cat of nine tails or something? i don't even want to know what the proof one would read!

No lashes here . We are not Saudi Arabia or Iran. It's just a little bit of bribe to police men or at worst spend few hours in jail.
We don't follow the strict implementation of Islam here. Majority of people here are moderate religious.