Well i just got my refractometer!

[Nate R]

welp, they say the first taste is free...i'm hooked on the refrac, so i just pulled the trigger on a $90 "New - Open Box" Milwaukee MA871 digital one...should show up just in time for next brew day...going to be nice to have 0.1% digital readout!

Braccy.... Couldn't you just make one yourself and save a few bucks?!?!
Lemme know how you like it... of course, compare to your good 'ole fashioned hydrometer for us, too!
I am SO jealous!!!

 

[Chorgey]

welp, they say the first taste is free...i'm hooked on the refrac, so i just pulled the trigger on a $90 "New - Open Box" Milwaukee MA871 digital one...should show up just in time for next brew day...going to be nice to have 0.1% digital readout!

Where did you get the MA871 for that price?

 

[bracconiere]

Couldn't you just make one yourself and save a few bucks?!?!

you mean like rig up a tilt for a $30 optical one? lol, i'm not smart enough! ;(

Where did you get the MA871 for that price?

i've been checking ebay for used ones for weeks now! finally one popped up! and it was just apparently an open box!

 

[MaxStout]

Let us know how it compares next brew day. Maybe do a side-by-side with an optical refrac and a hydro?

 

[bracconiere]

Let us know how it compares next brew day. Maybe do a side-by-side with an optical refrac and a hydro?

next brew day should be friday of next week, if i get some barley going to malt! (just blew the money that i would have spent on store bought malt on the refrac, so i better get some barley sprouting! )

 

[cmac62]

well my first brew with the refrac, i owe someone an appolagy. don't remember a name though.


being that could sample my run off during fly sparging, i realized sparging past 1.009 run-off was pretty pointless, called it at 11.5 gallons in the pot.

got a 1 hour boil off instead of 3, and 94% effec anyway!

now i just need one that reads in SG so i don't have to run back and forth from the computer to figure out what the hell a brick is! lol

Brac, you know you can get brewers friend on your phone. I use it all the time during brew day. I always google brix calculator and BF is the first one that comes up, easy peasy.

 

[bracconiere]

you know you can get brewers friend on your phone.

i'm anti-social and never owned a phone....lol

but islandlizard, and someone else told me x4, >1.080+1...i'm simple minded though, so for me it's more like x2x2....and add one as needed...

 

[bracconiere]

Where did you get the MA871 for that price?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/303971341663?hash=item46c61a955f:g:VWsAAOSwdq5ggLe8
deals pop up here and there....

being that one says or "Or Best Offer" maybe offer the starting bid?

 

[bracconiere]

just tested some Orange Juice with this thing got 10.6% Brix with the digital, and what looks to me like 1.042-43 on the hydro right out of the fridge.....i like it!