🔍 Enhance Precision with HunterBee Portable Refractometer Resolution Instrument Review

It's a tool! It reads the percentage of alcohol. I found it easy to set up and use and the instructions are in good English which is a lot! My first reading of the 80 proof bottle showed 38 percent after calibrating it. It should have been 40 but there must have been some evaporation because it was an old bottle left open during the party. I am very happy with it. You can catch those pesky kids adding water to your alcohol stash. LAUGH OUT LOUD

Unfortunately this very cool looking device was not calibrated and either looked broken or wasn't originally designed to work. At first I thought it was user error, but I asked my educated brother and sister-in-law to find out and it became clear that it just wasn't working. I even tested it with a popular ABV liquor and it was waaaaaay. I decided to step up and try something more expensive rather than asking for a replacement with the idea that you get what you pay for.

When I first got this I was excited because it was pretty cheap and easy to read. There was just one problem: it was very different when I tried testing it against some known concentrations of alcohol. "Nothing to worry about," I thought, there is a calibration screw in the device that supposedly can be used to adjust the measured values of the refractometer. Unfortunately, the screw failed to change the readings of the device, meaning I'm stuck with a useless device disabled by a large but…