Tilt Hydrometer

[BlueSasquatch]

Gotta be one of my favorite purchases so far. I'm only 80% into a batch, so I should hold off until more experience, but so far I am pretty impressed.

Seems a tad steep at first for $100 but the ability to know anywhere, anytime is rather nice. Im sure the novelty will wear off eventually. I bought a Hops basket to suspend in the mash, to keep solids from messing with the readings.
https://tilthydrometer.com/




It's currently sitting in the bucket on the left. 100% Corn. (The right is a wheat whiskey)



Ipad plugged in nearby continuously pulls data from the Hydrometer and uploads it to the cloud, every 15 minutes.



Some of the useful Data;





Example of the data it uploads, again, every 15 minutes. Overkill? Sure, but doesn't take any effort on my part.



SG reading with hydrometer was around that 1.066 mark when adjusted for temp. I pitched M-1 SafSpirits, perhaps a bit hot at 99, was worried for a bit but I used a yeast starter. 20 grams + can of starter + bottle of water on a whirly-gig thing, in a flask for 24 hours before pitching. Mash started 12 hours after yeast started. Pitched it when I did, cuz I didn't want to wait until after work (another 8hr)

Not sure why it jumped to 1.07 probably due to movement as I moved it to a different room right at the start. No sleeping bag until the temp hit 90 then I wrapped it back up. Uptick recently in temp due to ambient temps not being so damn cold. Was single digits for most of the ferment, last few days were 50F

[amh71]

I use an iSpindel, same idea, use it in every batch now. Doesn't actually do anything you can't do another way but you get some pretty graphs!

Plus you can see something going wrong early, last week a sugar wash looked fine and seemed just as active but looking at the graph the gravity was dropping a little bit slower than normal, turned out the cotton holding the bag of shells had snapped and the bag was smothered by the tub so ph had started dropping, fished it out and hung it back on the side and the ferment finished in the normal time.

[chown]

I love my Tilts. I thought it was gimmicky at first but got one for my birthday and now have 3.
I highly recommend getting a Raspberry Pi to log data. It's got more features than the iphone/android app. Logging every 5 minutes cuz i can

[BlueSasquatch]

I love my Tilts. I thought it was gimmicky at first but got one for my birthday and now have 3.
I highly recommend getting a Raspberry Pi to log data. It's got more features than the iphone/android app. Logging every 5 minutes cuz i can

I will be buying more. Been wanting to dive into raspberry pi, but for the last few years the prices are ridiculous.

[Bradster68]

Now that's cool. I'm betting one of those apps would give a notification if things went of track.

[Rrmuf]

I also love my Tilts. I've been using them for months and they're great!
Given my fermenters usually need a bit of help applied by way of a heat pad, and given that I am often travelling, I plugged my heaters into a smartplug so when the Tilts data says it's done (which I can also check from anywhere), I can turn the heaters off from anywhere and let the ferments settle.

Love them!

[BlueSasquatch]

I also love my Tilts. I've been using them for months and they're great!
Given my fermenters usually need a bit of help applied by way of a heat pad, and given that I am often travelling, I plugged my heaters into a smartplug so when the Tilts data says it's done (which I can also check from anywhere), I can turn the heaters off from anywhere and let the ferments settle.

Love them!

I do like that heat pad addition, you find a heat pad on the bottom works well enough? No temp gradient to be concerned over? Weight limit on them? Have thought a keg-wrap like heater on these blue barrels would be nice. But I'm in the process of a custom 3-keg fermentation chamber, with the wifi ink-bird controller, can keep a somewhat constant temp.

[Rrmuf]

I also love my Tilts. I've been using them for months and they're great!
Given my fermenters usually need a bit of help applied by way of a heat pad, and given that I am often travelling, I plugged my heaters into a smartplug so when the Tilts data says it's done (which I can also check from anywhere), I can turn the heaters off from anywhere and let the ferments settle.

Love them!

I do like that heat pad addition, you find a heat pad on the bottom works well enough? No temp gradient to be concerned over? Weight limit on them? Have thought a keg-wrap like heater on these blue barrels would be nice. But I'm in the process of a custom 3-keg fermentation chamber, with the wifi ink-bird controller, can keep a somewhat constant temp.

Hi, I just use a seedling heat pad wrapped around each fermenters. No issues as far as I can see.

[chown]

I also love my Tilts. I've been using them for months and they're great!
Given my fermenters usually need a bit of help applied by way of a heat pad, and given that I am often travelling, I plugged my heaters into a smartplug so when the Tilts data says it's done (which I can also check from anywhere), I can turn the heaters off from anywhere and let the ferments settle.

Love them!

I still do the same thing! eventually I'll get more wifi inkbirds. I have one on my main fermenter and one in my green house. They're super useful when the weather starts getting hot. My greenhouse will get over 110f when the sun hits it in the summer, so I can get a notification at work to kick the fans on (smart plugs)

[rubberduck71]

I'd totally get one of these if it could monitor pH!!!

[Rrmuf]

Unfortunately they don't. I wish they did too.

[Sugarshane]

So I recently bought one of these and have to say I enjoy being able to track my fermentation better. Until this thread though I didn’t know about the spreadsheet so now I really like it and want to get another fermentation goin just to see the pretty charts it makes I’ve been using an Elitech temp controller with a fern wrap heating mat. which graphs and charts temps but not SG, obviously. So to be able graph that as well and keep track without taking samples is huge. A lot of potential with this setup

[Stump Lake]

I followed your link and ordered one. I'm a sucker for gadgets. They have gone up since you bought yours. My cost was $135.

[Stump Lake]

I need some help from any of you Tilt 2 users.

I used my Tilt 2 last year and it woked ok.

I got it out this year and put a new battery in it.

When I first pick it up I get 3 green flashes. And it registers on my phone app.

After a couple minutes the app screen goes blank (black).

It will not show any more data after that.

I have done this over and over. It always starts working then will not transfer any more data.

Any ideas?

[Tammuz]

Can you dump that app and install a new one?

[Stump Lake]

Can you dump that app and install a new one?

I did try that.

I'm wondering if it is somehow a phone setting and not the tilt.

I just came home and set it back in the glass of water and it instantly came up and gave me a reading and then went black again.

[howie]

i'm looking at a rapt pill, primarily for my beer fermzilla, but no doubt i'll chuck it in other washes.
the rapt is a lot cheaper and can be charged wirelessly.
any advantages the Tilt has over the Rapt, because the tilt is 3 x the price?
it's a pity someone doesn't make one with PH testing onboard, then i would pay.

[Stump Lake]

I looked up the raph pill. First I've heard of it. If I had of know about it I would have bought it instead

[SW_Shiner]

I ordered a rapt pill, just waiting for delivery. I couldn’t find much difference between the two other than price.