Digital refractometer
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Digital refractometer
Does anyone use one of these digital refractometers?
Thinking about getting one to replace the hand held optical one currently in use.
Guy
Thinking about getting one to replace the hand held optical one currently in use.
Guy
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Re: Digital refractometer
I haven’t but your post did prompt me to look around out of interest. Looks like the manufacturer is Milwaukee and there are positive brewing based reviews below;
https://www.homebrewfinds.com/2018/01/h ... meter.html
https://www.homebrewfinds.com/2018/01/h ... meter.html
Re: Digital refractometer
Yeah, I got a digital one, Atago PAL-1 - https://www.atago.net/product/?l=en&f=p ... p#ABS42888 from fleabay
I just calibrate it before using with distilled water
I just calibrate it before using with distilled water
Re: Digital refractometer
You can brew a lot of beer for that money !!!
For the record I have several optical refractometers and hydrometers
For the record I have several optical refractometers and hydrometers
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Re: Digital refractometer
Yes, I use the Milwakee. Make sure you keep the lens clean. Make sure you cool the wort to room temperature, despite all corrections it does.
Actually, also the temperature correction for the typical optical refractometer is only for environmental temperature, not wort temperature.
Ingo
Actually, also the temperature correction for the typical optical refractometer is only for environmental temperature, not wort temperature.
Ingo
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Re: Digital refractometer
Several?! That would drive me mad. I'd spend all the brewday comparing them against each other!
Guy
Ps How much beer could you brew for the cost of your hydrometers and refractometers?
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Re: Digital refractometer
Hi Ingoingo wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2019 6:50 pmYes, I use the Milwakee. Make sure you keep the lens clean. Make sure you cool the wort to room temperature, despite all corrections it does.
Actually, also the temperature correction for the typical optical refractometer is only for environmental temperature, not wort temperature.
Ingo
Thanks for the advice about temperature. Are you pleased you bought the Milwaukee? I don't want to buy one and then think it's no better than an optical refractometer.
Guy
Re: Digital refractometer
Yes, I'm happy with the Milwakee, it's a solid tool and less fragile than a proper set of brew house- and fermentation hydrometers (a set of ludwig-schneider hydrometers would cost a lot more).
Re: Digital refractometer
My cheap amazon optical is just as accurate, I sold my Milwaukee.
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Re: Digital refractometer
I don't compare one against the other. I have refractometers for brewing and distilling and hydrometers for distilling and brewing. The cost is practically irrelevent and is is recovered in the sales of beer and spirit.guypettigrew wrote: ↑Sat Sep 14, 2019 8:06 pmSeveral?! That would drive me mad. I'd spend all the brewday comparing them against each other!
Guy
Ps How much beer could you brew for the cost of your hydrometers and refractometers?
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on." Dean Martin
1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip
It's better to lose time with friends than to lose friends with time (Portuguese proverb)
Alone we travel faster
Together we travel further
( In an admonishing email from our golf club)
1. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, thoroughly used, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming... "f*ck, what a trip
It's better to lose time with friends than to lose friends with time (Portuguese proverb)
Alone we travel faster
Together we travel further
( In an admonishing email from our golf club)