After 15 Years , Finally Broke My Hydrometer

[fcmcg]

So many years ago , as a birthday present , Mum & Dad gave me a beginners brew set up...
When brewing the other day , I'd mashed in my second batch for the day , the wind picked right up and blew my hydrometer right off the table...
Initialy , it looked to have survived the fall...but alas , the stem...she's a broke...
Vale my old faithful...my one and only for the last 15 years...has seen me through countless k&k , extract, fwk and now AG...there will never be another with such history and sentiment...
I miss you...
Off to G&G to get me a newer , sexier model !
Cheers
Ferg

 

[WarmBeer]

Bah, get a refractometer, much quicker and more efficient.

When I got my refrac, I wandered around the house looking for things I could measure the vicosity of

You still need a hydro, so buy one of those as well, but I do love my refractometer.

 

[fcmcg]

Bah, get a refractometer, much quicker and more efficient.

When I got my refrac, I wandered around the house looking for things I could measure the vicosity of

You still need a hydro, so buy one of those as well, but I do love my refractometer.

I do have a refractometer , WB...Just you can't drink the sample from one h34r:

 

[DU99]

hydrometer,must a have look at sexier one next G&G.. :beerbang:

 

[WarmBeer]

I do have a refractometer , WB...Just you can't drink the sample from one h34r:

You can, providing you're not very thirsty :lol:

 

[Josh]

You can, providing you're not very thirsty :lol:

Or you draw off a 7 glass of beer to test.

I don't actually own a hydrometer.

 

[Rodolphe01]

my years:hydrometers ratio is pretty much the exact opposite of yours

 

[fcmcg]

hydrometer,must a have look at sexier one next G&G.. :beerbang:

I came home with a new model..even made in Australia..but nothing like my last one ...she was one of a kind
But thanks to Dan at the G&G , who saw my pain and whose humor was welcome , I have a nice new one but not sexy...

 

[Thirsty Boy]

15 years must be some sort of a record - i go through one of the damn things every 12 months.... And i use a refractometer for 90% of my measurements anyway, so I break a hydro about every tenth time i pick one up.

RIP to your old faithful - just dont have too much fun with the tarty new model before a decent time of mourning has elapsed... Thats just tacky.

 

[beerdrinkingbob]

So many years ago , as a birthday present , Mum & Dad gave me a beginners brew set up...
When brewing the other day , I'd mashed in my second batch for the day , the wind picked right up and blew my hydrometer right off the table...
Initialy , it looked to have survived the fall...but alas , the stem...she's a broke...
Vale my old faithful...my one and only for the last 15 years...has seen me through countless k&k , extract, fwk and now AG...there will never be another with such history and sentiment...
I miss you...
Off to G&G to get me a newer , sexier model !
Cheers
Ferg

We'll have a mintues silence at the next Westgate meeting Gus :unsure:

Nothing wrong with upgrading to a younger model though, my dad does it all the time h34r:

 

[technoicon]

my brews were costing me an extra $15 a brew just because I broke a hydro every brew.. had a bad run for about 5 times. looked at a refracto but had already spent that much on hydro's... got a few photo's, pretty big hydro grave yard at my place! they should make plastic ones...

 

[Mayor of Mildura]

my brews were costing me an extra $15 a brew just because I broke a hydro every brew.. had a bad run for about 5 times. looked at a refracto but had already spent that much on hydro's... got a few photo's, pretty big hydro grave yard at my place! they should make plastic ones...

link ... sorry mate had to do it.

 

[fcmcg]

We'll have a mintues silence at the next Westgate meeting Gus :unsure:

Nothing wrong with upgrading to a younger model though, my dad does it all the time h34r:

Oh Robbie , you make me laugh !

 

[fcmcg]

my brews were costing me an extra $15 a brew just because I broke a hydro every brew.. had a bad run for about 5 times. looked at a refracto but had already spent that much on hydro's... got a few photo's, pretty big hydro grave yard at my place! they should make plastic ones...

In all honesty , i have always , always been that damn careful with it...putting it in its holder and then a jug, everytime i used it...and then away..at the back of my brew toys cupboard....
I'm considering framing her...bless her and all who sailed with her....
I can uderstand why you'd want a plastic one , though, lol , you poor bloke !

 

[DU99]

we can pass the hat around and get you a new one..

 

[MarkBastard]

I had one last about a year, my longest record, but recently it broke. The one I replaced it with was out by 3 points. Then I accidentally broke that too (put it back in its tube and as I did it pushed the bottom of the tube out and fell to the floor).

Hopefully the next one I get will be both accurate and last a while longer!

 

[technoicon]

haha i usually try really hard to keep it in a safe place. but after the 5th beer, trying to get gravity while measusing hops.. i'm hopeless leave it on the bench or put it in it's holder, (then the bottom falls through.. lol) it's was a learning experience! lol

 

[MarkBastard]

The annoying thing is I was gunna chuck it on the bench but remembered I'd just broken one so thought I'd do the safe thing and put it in its case. God damn it.

 

[Hatchy]

Mine is 12 years old, admittedly i didn't brew for about 10 years which kept it safe.

Having said that I did have my hydrometer tube blow off the table & get trodden on so my hydrometer isn't actually any good to me at the moment.

 

[wobblythongs]

Why can't you by an alcos refractometer some thing like this? http://cgi.ebay.com/Wine-Grape-Alcohol-Ref...DefaultDomain_0 OK fair enough they aren't to good with wheat beers but can't you do a brix convert for FG? When I break mine I was thinking about doing it this way.