Looking for a good digital scale. Any suggestions?

[Brewer102]

Hi, I've just recently got into home beer brewing and I'm looking for a good digital scale. I'm not really sure what I should be looking for. I found a website that has a lot of scales, but I want to get some feedback before I make a purchase. Any suggestions or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

This is what I found. Please let me know if any of these would work.
http://www.scales.net/household/kitchen-scales.html

Thanks, Jason

 

[mosquitocontrol]

I have this one and it works great. No issues yet and it has pretty high reviews everywhere I've looked.

Escali Primo P115 Digital Kitchen Scale 11 lb x 0.1 oz

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

I have the american Weigh and it is great. I use it for everything now.

I also have an inexpensive postal scale good up to 50lbs.

 

[dale1038]

If you're going to use it for measuring hops,dme,etc. you want the Escali Primo. I love mine. Never used it for grain but shouldn't be a problem.

 

[samc]

I've had the Escali Primo and returned it as mine was junk. Could have been a lemon.
I had a My Weigh 7001 or something like that which was pretty good but the wall wort died and someone bought me an Oxo http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000WJMTNA/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 which is more robust than the others and I like it !!

If your going to do small amounts of minerals for water additions or small amounts of hops you should buy http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000P1NYE8/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 which is cheap and very accurate.

 

[JetSmooth]

Whatever you get, don't get something cheap. I bought a "Biggest Loser" digital scale for like $15 at Bed Bath and Beyond, only to find out it only has one decimal place. So my 0.25oz hop additions end up being 0.3oz hop additions.

 

[prosper]

I use this one:
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.2563

Accurate to the gram, so it's good for measuring out base malt, specialty malts, and hops.

 

[Palefire]

Whatever you get, don't get something cheap. I bought a "Biggest Loser" digital scale for like $15 at Bed Bath and Beyond, only to find out it only has one decimal place. So my 0.25oz hop additions end up being 0.3oz hop additions.

You know, if you change the units to grams, measurements like that are easy. Just remember that 1 oz = 28g.

I got this scale for less than $20 and I've been really happy with it.

 

[JetSmooth]

You know, if you change the units to grams, measurements like that are easy. Just remember that 1 oz = 28g.

I got this scale for less than $20 and I've been really happy with it.

Yeah, it'll do grams. But math is hard.

 

[weirdboy]

I have been using the Escali Primo for about a year and really like it for measuring hops and other smaller additions. For measuring base grains with it, you usually have to split them up into a couple different containers for most batches.

 

[Shooter]

I have the AMW 250i from More Beer and have had no problems with it.

 

[Brewer102]

Good Info. Thanks guys

 

[mosquitocontrol]

If you are too lazy to convert to grams, just keep adding hops in very small amounts until it just hits .3oz. Take out one or two pellets and if it goes to .2 then that's .0.25oz.

 

[wuertele]

I use the a 66lb capacity Ohaus counting scale with 1g readability. At $416.25 this is way more than the other scales in this thread, but I've been very happy with it.

I do 10 gal batches and my efficiency isn't that great, so I wanted something with more than 30lb capacity. I like being able to put my MT on it, hit TARE, and grind my grains right into the MT! Also, I wanted 1g readability for measuring hops.

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

I've been using my escali primo for about 5+ years now. I think it is great and it is tough to be the $20 or whatever it costs.

 

[Catt22]

These two sources will have just about any type of scale you can think of and the prices are very good too:

http://www.americanweigh.com/

http://www.oldwillknottscales.com/about-us.aspx

I prefer to use two scales. One low capacity precise scale for hops etc and another large capacity one for grain. Most of the high capacity scales aren't all that accurate for fractions of an ounce, regardless of what they claim and it's a PIA to have to weigh grain out a few pounds at a time. Good digital scales can be had for cheap these days. I like that a lot.

 

[jasonsargo]

America's Test Kitchen just aired an episode that tested kitchen scales. Once again, an Oxo product reigned supreme. They said that almost digital scales were very accurate, and the only thing that set them apart was price and features.

The Oxo had a relatively large pad for larger containers, a removable readout with a large screen to read out from underneath large containers, and an 11 lb. capacity, all for $50.