🍺 Home Brew Ohio V1 VFR8 2ERN Hydrometer: Ultimate Precision for Beer Brewing and Winemaking Review

I was looking for a cheap replacement for a 20 year old hydrometer that I recently broke (although the paper "scale" inside it sometimes moved and I had to put it back on. ). It turned out that despite the price, this is actually a better hydrometer than I had. It's also interesting to note that people have complained that it's a black and white scale, although that's what the listing showed when I bought it and I would have agreed, it actually is a color coded scale that I received. . For the…

Received the moisture meter in October and it worked fine until the 30th of December when I brewed 2 batches of beers and put them in the dryer after washing. I had the weighted side down and my cooker was shaking it when I took it out of the dryer and some of the scales came off where it meets the bulbous end. Pretty sloppy on my part, that might not be a flaw in the product but it would be good to be more cautious if you don't want to buy more. Regarding the metrics, I use brewology101.com to

I bought these after my last one broke (different brand). At first I liked the design. Seems well done. But then I used it on the day of the brew. The areometer is significantly (and unnecessarily) longer than my old one. Much too long. The 100 ml measuring cylinder is too short! Resting on the bottom of a graduated cylinder, the hydrometer reads only about 1.020. Everything else was useless. Lots of lead below. There is even a five-cent "light bulb" hanging from it that is filled with plenty…