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Reviewed in the United States on February 18, 2025
Very easy to use
Marcus W Piper
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2025
The calibration will calibrate zero just fine, but it measures my final gravity at 1.024 compared to a manual hydrometer reading of 1.008.I verified it's inaccuracy by mixing up some sugar water and testing against my hydrometer and the higher the SG, the farther off it became.I was concerned that my beer hadn't fermented out, but it was just this cheap pos doesn't read correctly.
fred E
Reviewed in Canada on September 24, 2024
works well, simple calibration and seems accurate in the range I need to measure for sugar percent for slushies
Brett
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2024
The product has worked great past few brews, quick read, very accurate.The only issue is when rotating the eye piece to focus the view, you have to rotate it so far that the eye piece starts to fall out… so you have to hold it steady, and finesse it, but it does work…
Liam
Reviewed in Australia on May 20, 2024
I used this on my home brew beer brew day the day after I received it. Packed well with its own case for storage. Readings seems to be accurate out of the box as I tested it with tap water and it showed 0 Brix... Fine. The issue is in the pictures of the listing it shows Brix and Specific Gravity on the same scale. When it arrived it only shows Brix. I can use an online calculator but for efficiency I was disappointed that it wasn't right there in the view finder. Other than that I was able to record my readings as required.
khashayar f.
Reviewed in Canada on March 8, 2024
Updated after about 8 months , still functioning well and accurately.
Vytautas
Reviewed in Australia on February 16, 2024
It is advertised as a dual scale having both Brix and SG scales, however it only has Brix scale and then you need to convert to SG manually
LRS
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2024
Works great, quick and accurate.
AJ Rivera
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2024
Great product! Came in a convenient case with a lock to close. Size is also convenient it can be stored easily takes up no space. Good quality, it reads nice and clear and it's super easy to clean! Highly recommend this!
Nicki
Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2024
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Adam Garcia
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
If you have a slushy machine and you intend to serve house made frozen cocktails you NEED this. Don’t buy the cookie cutter premade frozen drink mixes. Make your own from scratch. They taste like far better and a far cheaper to make. Takes some of the guesswork out of cocktail creation and allows more creativity. If your Brix is between 13-15 you’ve got a viable batch of frozen cocktails. Depending on your machine you may have additional wiggle room but if you’re in that general range you’re in good shape. This refractometer is easy to use right out of the box and very affordable.
Andrew
Reviewed in Canada on May 8, 2023
For what it is, this is an excellent product for the price. It only uses a few drops of liquid, hold it directly under a light(I use my range hood) and it is very easy to read. It even has an adjustable eyepiece focus to make the scale crystal clear. HOWEVER, I bought this under the impression that I could measure OG and FG of my home brews. While it seems to measure OG within 1-2 SG points of my hydrometer, the FG will be WAY OFF(mine showed 15 SG points higher) of the actual SG measured with hydrometer. This is because refractometers are not calibrated for alcohol content, and the presence of alcohol will throw off the measurement. It doesn't mean this is a bad product, just that refractometers and not capable of measuring SG of liquid with alcohol in it. There are, however, calculators online that estimate the actual FG, given the refractometer readings at OG and FG. While I'm yet to confirm the accuracy of these online calculators, I will continue double-checking the FG with my hydrometer just to be sure. I have become confident enough to only use the refractometer to measure the OG.
Steven Perrot
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2022
So, you make your must, mush, malt, whatever, and then you need to put so much of it in a graduated cylinder to be measured by a hydrometer that you may or may not be reading right because of the angle you're at and how water works with things being put in it etc etc etc. With this guy, you take a couple of drops of your solution and place it on the glass, close the top, TAKE YOUR GLASSES OFF, and look into the ocular (under a light... c'mon....do I have to think of everything?). It will accurately give you your specific gravity reading and has a very wide range in which to read from, unless you're making pure ethanol, then you should probably get something digital. It has made my life easier, and I use less product to get an accurate reading..... and it stops people from taking a huge sample to get the final reading because you know they just want to get trashed when they pull 28 oz. to read from.
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