Fancy Hydrometer?

[Minbari]

I'm hydrometer for OG if I'm organised. The tilt is good enough for FG. I don't need that level of precision on ABV, just whether it's finished. I'm still probably closer than most commercial beer anyway.

This is what I always felt. I used my refractometer to see if fermentation was done. Never really cared if I hit FG or not. Then I got the tilt and it gets close enough.

Hydrometer users too much beer to measure.

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

Come on somebody get one! (not me of course)

We can probably talk @Josh Hughes into buying one. He's proven susceptible to our bad influence before. C'mon Josh, all the cool brewers have one!

 

[GFHomebrew]

At least @The Brew Mentor can claim it on tax

 

[Blackmuse]

I use my tilt all the time, accepting it as inaccurate. But, can you spot where on the chart below we reached FG? Who cares if the number is "wrong", I get the info I seek.

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At 130.00 I care if it's wrong! Lol But I get where you are coming from.

 

[Josh Hughes]

At 130.00 I care if it's wrong! Lol But I get where you are coming from.

Mine has been Within 0.001 on OG and FG each time. When I check it of course. The current batch o forgot to get a measurement but the OG was the same as the recipe predicted and the previous time I brewed it.

 

[Josh Hughes]

We can probably talk @Josh Hughes into buying one. He's proven susceptible to our bad influence before. C'mon Josh, all the cool brewers have one!

Not this time!! Haha

 

[BarbarianBrewer]

At 130.00 I care if it's wrong! Lol But I get where you are coming from.

That's my problem with the Tilt (and others) as well. They are all way too expensive (for me at least) if I can only trust half of what it tells me.

Edit: There is also the Butter Fingers risk as well.

 

[Donoroto]

Meh, it's just another toy. I can't say my beer is better because I have one. But (at least to me) it is entertaining. I'd easily lose as much at the craps table.

Sad how little it takes to entertain me.