Official Broken Hydrometer Count

[SLFcentralOH]

2132
Its funny I find this thread today. Because today I broke my second one. The wife broke the first one. (It was a great excuse to upgrade to a set of 3 narrow range) The one today was so ugly. I put my tube into a sauce pan to catch any beer I might spill. I then filled the tube from my racking cane when I was racking to my bottling bucket. After racking I reached down to pick up the sauce pan with the tube with the hydrometer in it up off the floor. I must have not picked it up level and the tube tipped over spilling the beer and the hydrometer all over the floor. Luckily my mid range goes down to 1.000 so I could still check my gravity

 

[jcav]

2133 Broke one last month. Snapped the top inch off the long stem. I won't post how.....

John

 

[texmedic49]

2134 The kids knocked the bucket that it was in with some other stuff off the top of the fridge looking for something last night. I think one of them even stepped on the fat end of it, as it was crushed. Yay.

 

[Firewalker11]

2135

Slow motion side swipe as I was reaching for the paper towels today and caught the graduated cylinder full of beer and hydrometer with the back of my hand. It flew about 6' before hitting and bouncing off the face of my kezer with no apparent damage (messy beer gush all over the keezer) then hit the floor with that sickening "dead" sound glass makes once its cracked.

Both the graduated cylinder and the hydrometer have cracks going spirally up but not connected. I was tempted to keep them but I just knew that it would end in stitches if I did. They held together all the way to the trash can where they both broke into 4 pieces. Do we have graduated cylinder count going too?

 

[signpost]

2136

Lesson learned: don't stir anything with the hydrometer.

Doh!

My first broken hydrometer after four years of brewing. I'm ok with that pace.

 

[EPbrew]

2138

Had no idea this was here until tonight. Broke 2 in 1 week last summer.

 

[jimdkc]

Still using the hydrometer I bought in 2004 when I started brewing (probably just jinxed myself!)

still 2138...

 

[wallybangbang]

Dad gummit!!!! Just broke my first one last brew day. It was the original that came with my kit 5-6 years ago. She had a good run.

 

[PetVet]

2140- barely hit the tip on the granite counter. **Poof**

 

[NatureOfTheYeast]

2141

Last year. Had it in the tube in my hand while I was pouring or rotating my arm somehow. Slow motion slipped out of the tube right in front of my dumb eyes and hit the floor and shattered. It was the old classic "turn your arm to check your watch and spill your coffee" situation.

 

[JunkCatsOnThePorch]

2142

While racking to the bottling bucket(yes i love bottling) I heard something fall behind me and so I turned so see what it was. Stepped on my hydrometer that was in its plastic case, moved my arm to much and sucked up some air into the siphon

Easy cleanup though for this one, which is number three for me. I'm averaging one a year so no real complaints

 

[jmcquesten]

2135

Slow motion side swipe as I was reaching for the paper towels today and caught the graduated cylinder full of beer and hydrometer with the back of my hand. It flew about 6' before hitting and bouncing off the face of my kezer with no apparent damage (messy beer gush all over the keezer) then hit the floor with that sickening "dead" sound glass makes once its cracked.

Both the graduated cylinder and the hydrometer have cracks going spirally up but not connected. I was tempted to keep them but I just knew that it would end in stitches if I did. They held together all the way to the trash can where they both broke into 4 pieces. Do we have graduated cylinder count going too?

If so, I just broke my test cylinder a few days ago. I had just taken the hydrometer out so it's still ok....for now.

 

[MrDavis]

I've actually had two dreams (nightmares) about breaking my hydrometer, but it hasn't happened yet!

 

[sd_brewbie]

2143
Oops

 

[Genghis]

Still using the hydrometer I bought in 2004 when I started brewing (probably just jinxed myself!)

 

[jleiii]

I weighed in here when I broke my last one, so I bought another and a spare. Both are still going strong more than a year later.

So, maybe you'll have luck with this strategy too.

 

[rokfreek]

2144

Came with my starter kit 9 years ago. Now it's gone.

 

[cubalz]

2145. Damn cheap things.

 

[Schreiner]

2150

My first hydrometer lasted 7 years. I've broken at least five in the last three years.

 

[fatherdan]

2151


it wasn't me....

 

[dylanpeters]

I've broken 3...

 

[WhoDatDad78]

2152 dropped into the flask, in a hurry to get started brewing.... No liquid inside.

 

[Wolfdust]

So lost the seal on the ball lock disconnect. Looking in a bucket I spill my wood chips in the bucket. So I'm emptying everything out so I pick up the wood chips so I find my gasket and I see the dang flask and hydrometer fall. It looks fine until I see the bottom busted out. That would 2153 and I never found the gasket.

 

[thaymond]

2154...was cleaning up post brew day and a funnel leaned on it.

 

[ncboiler]

2156. Boiled the bastard.

 

[TheHunk]

what happened to 2155?

 

[user 125772]

2155 ...... Mine is still intact after 8 years, what's wrong with you guys?

 

[Buc_Nasty]

2157, I've broken 2 the same way, they just rolled off the counter.

 

[Yeastieboy]

2158.... Intoxicated homebrewing.

 

[Geirfuglinn]

2159. The dogs had it from the table and chewed the end of it.. No dogs were damaged in the process, no glass in dog mouths. Must store out of dog reach...