Review on 🍺 Maximize Brewing Precision with the Beer Wort Wine Refractometer Scale! by Frank Harwood

I bought this after seeing one of these at the local Brew Your Own Beer shop where they show you how to brew a 15 gallon batch using their professional equipment. I liked the fact that this device is easy to read and only requires a drop or two of wort to measure as opposed to a hydrometer which requires a few ounces of wort to measure. The hydrometer causes you to lose a few ounces of beer with each reading, which can equate to a small serving. What nobody has told me, and I wish they knew, is that this device starts to work very inaccurately as soon as alcohol appears. in solution. So while it's great for measuring the initial density of your wort, it's useless once the fermentation process begins. To use it after the first boil, you need to read with both a hydrometer and a refractometer. You can then calculate a correction factor with which you can use the refractometer from now on. I'm told that the exact correction factor depends on the particular refractometer, so you'll have to calculate your own. If I gave you mine here, yours might look very different. So if you buy this device and don't have a hydrometer and test tube, do yourself a favor and order these too. Then search the web for relevant brewing articles to learn how to calculate and use your device-specific settings. This may seem like too much trouble. If you don't mind throwing away those hydrometer samples (or you like drinking flat beer) then you don't need this gauge. If, like me, you like the convenience of an easy-to-read device and the ability to take gravity measurements on very small samples, buy a hydrometer, a test tube, and this device. Calculate your correction factor and from now on you can remove the areometer. and only very small samples are needed. If you look at the photos I posted remember that the photo of the sensor was taken by putting a cell phone camera up to the hole and trying to reach the device, camera and light. All sources are aligned (which is MUCH harder than it looks). But the beer in question is about 1.075 SG and 19 Brix. All I needed to get this value was a tiny drop of wort from the faucet in my fermentation bucket. Drops of liquid on the prism and the case it fell into.