do not buy a beer wine hydrometer
Proof/Tralle Alcoholmeter is what you need
wrong hydrometer
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woodshed
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Re: wrong hydrometer
Both are actually useful. A hydrometer is used for OG and FG of a mash/wash.
An Alcoholmeter comes into play while proofing out of the still and for your ABV cut.
Two totally different and very fragile tools.
An Alcoholmeter comes into play while proofing out of the still and for your ABV cut.
Two totally different and very fragile tools.
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Re: wrong hydrometer
+1 Woodshed.
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Re: wrong hydrometer
+1 on the "Fragile" part..
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skow69
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Re: wrong hydrometer
They should come in 6-packs.
Distilling at 110f and 75 torr.
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NZChris
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Re: wrong hydrometer
Don't forget your wine refractometer.
An ethanol refractometer would be handy too. Better than a parrot.
An ethanol refractometer would be handy too. Better than a parrot.
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StillLearning1
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Re: wrong hydrometer
Why you gotta go telling me about things like that!? Don't you know I'm already broke!? Jeeze now I have something else that I simply can't run without and those things aren't cheap!NZChris wrote:Don't forget your wine refractometer.
An ethanol refractometer would be handy too. Better than a parrot.
SL1 (hopes the sarcasm and the thank you came through)
But what the heck do I know.....I am still learning.
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NZChris
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Re: wrong hydrometer
Not cheap??? You shoulda seen the price thirty years ago.
No, I don't have an alc. refract. Would be a nice toy though. I want to build a digital parrot using the technology. Have the bits, just need to get off my arse and do it.
No, I don't have an alc. refract. Would be a nice toy though. I want to build a digital parrot using the technology. Have the bits, just need to get off my arse and do it.
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skow69
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Re: wrong hydrometer
Amen, Brother.StillLearning1 wrote:Why you gotta go telling me about things like that!? Don't you know I'm already broke!? Jeeze now I have something else that I simply can't run without and those things aren't cheap!NZChris wrote:Don't forget your wine refractometer.
An ethanol refractometer would be handy too. Better than a parrot.
SL1 (hopes the sarcasm and the thank you came through)
Oh, yeah, don't forget the pH meter.
Distilling at 110f and 75 torr.
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