Poll
Question:
You are being castaway on a desert island which Do you bring with you, Refractometer or Hydrometer
Option 1: Hydrometer
votes: 9
Option 2: Refractometer
votes: 4
For the question lets assume that you have all the requisite items to calculate results and to sterilise your hardware.
should probably be a third option 'refractometer & hydrometer'
or electric hand held density metre option 3 :)
Quote from: RichC on January 30, 2014, 06:41:17 PM
should probably be a third option 'refractometer & hydrometer'
No Rich, choose which parent you want to live with!
At this stage I'm getting more worried about which one will end up living with me:)
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hahaha
I'd never think of refractometer option #2 ;D
Quote from: alealex on January 30, 2014, 08:39:30 PM
hahaha
I'd never think of refractometer option #2 ;D
SO; You never had to answer the question: "Do you like it rough or smoooothe" :-[
does a refractometer need batteries??
No, only light source.
refractometer it is then as I'd not be able to order a new hydrometer when i drop it (i seem to do that a lot recently...)
Refractometer does shit job once alkohol is present. But very handy while mashing.
I was using ref on the wine that should finish fermenting ages ago. Result: 1.031
Hydrometer: 1.006
Since then I've stop using ref for checking fg
Didnt check on slow set.
Alex listening to podcast last year of a guy on beersmith who has come up with a better equation for refractometer FG and where he asked 100 brewers to measure using hydrometer and refractometer a controlled sample, firstly his calc improved the actual FG by 0.1% on abv using refractometer but secondly and more critically 60% of the homebrewers using the refractometer got a more accurate reading than hydrometer.
I think there was a problem up to 10 years ago in terms of the FG calc but issue is long gone.
Alex what was your original gravity or brix?
OG on that particular one was 1.10
Btw I know what slow set is :) I think even my four year old knows on this stage.
Quote from: Tubomyces on January 30, 2014, 11:48:25 PM
Dildometer ftw
I suppose... you might get lonely on a desert island...
another use for it would be bludgeoning pigs for food.
Just make sure to clean it up between the 3 activities of brewing, dildoing and bludgeoning.
Why cant I have both?
I use both & both are always bang on. Ive a brix lad so have to use beersmith on my phone to convert brix to gravity. Handy yokes. Wish I got one that had gravity & brix on it though.
Nearly 2:1 wow surprised
Quote from: Hop Bomb on January 31, 2014, 10:41:03 AM
Why cant I have both?
I use both & both are always bang on. Ive a brix lad so have to use beersmith on my phone to convert brix to gravity. Handy yokes. Wish I got one that had gravity & brix on it though.
+1
Here's the proof. Is the refractometer fukked or what it is?
Readings are always the same on water or wort.
Lads you don't use that value as FG, you put the brix or SG OG and that value into a formula ???!!!
See attached or just use beersmith
@Tube: prism isn't fukked, just took a shot in front of yellow halogen light.
@CH: thanks for the chart, that is the missing element