Take the guesswork out of measuring your final gravity.
Precisely read the finishing gravities in your homemade beer with this narrow-range, highly accurate hydrometer. The scale range is only .990-1.020, but the individual gradients are extra large making it easy to read.
Get more accurate final gravity measurements.
because it's cool and accurate!
Perfect to read final gravity.
I am developing a house yeast, and I need to ensure accurate FG.
Love the ease of FG reading - and my other one broke!
This hydrometer did not come with a temperature guide. I was wondering what the temperature of the liquid should be at?
BEST ANSWER: The liquid should be at room temperature in order to get an accurate reading. Use this online tool if needed.
With greater precision comes greater delicacy! Don't kid yourself about this! THIS IS A VERY PRECISE, DELICATE INSTRUMENT! This is not the proper tool for your brew day activity. Use it when your fermentation is near or at completion.
Be focused & careful when it comes to this stage of brewing. DON'T SHORTCUT OR BECOME HASTY!
If you are prone to breaking hydrometers, purchase 2!
Take your time & be extremely careful & this tool will provide you with a precision report on your final gravity. It does for me, every time!
This is great for finding your final gravity on a wine you're fixing to bottle, whether or not you've added sweetness. It appears to be very fragile, so handle with care!
This hydrometer has the scale to accurately determine end of fermentation.I only reads between 0.990 and 1.020, with markings every 0.001. Spacing is such that you can easiiy estimate 0 0.0005.
The only drawback is that it appears to be quite fragile. Probably not much you can do about that, as the long small diameter neck is required to get the accuracy desired.
Bought this on Black Friday 2018. Received it and was well packed. Opened it and appeared to be OK. Neck is VERY narrow and delicate. Returned it to the case and placed it in my equipment drawer. Went to use it for the first time and it was broken where the neck meets the body, so I never even got to try it out. I WAS careful, but it is obviously fragile, so be careful. Wasted my money.
Love it, just know it is fragile.
Great at what it does.
I love simple, purpose built tools. This hydrometer says what it does and does what it says.
Item as described. Works as expected. Packaged well.
I just love this tool. No guessing which reading you are getting. Obviously it is very fragile, but it is great.
Like the other reviews state this is a very fragile hydrometer. Fit into opening of my wine thief but got stuck closer to bottom due to its larger size. Broke while trying to pull it out. Dissapointingly fragile especially when this version is almost twice as expensive compared to other sites. Would like to try again but not sure if willing to due to price/fragile nature.
I was always struggling to see exactly what my finished gravity was with another, less accurate hydrometer. This hydrometer makes it simple to see exactly what your reading is. After using this, I don't want to do without it.
Cons: It is very fragile. The stem is very thin. As long as you're very careful, it's fine. I dropped the first one, and I'm here to order another... Also the weighted end is larger than the other hydrometer I'm used to. It is almost too bid for my wine thief. I think it's fine, but it makes me wonder if there's enough friction to affect the reading. I haven't checked with another vessel yet to see, but I think it's fine. It could be better to use a graduated cylinder.
I read the other reviews about this hydrometer being fragile, and thought, "yeah sure, just be careful." First thing I do is break the thing taking it out of the package. Doh! But really, I was trying to be exceedingly careful. The stem is just too small and made of thinner glass than other hydrometers.
Drop it in, take a look, you'll know where your beer is at while it's in it's final stages of fermentation.
Easy to read and you need to order 2. I have gone through them as I am not very careful with them and they are easy to break. The price is right for me.
Quit squinting your eyes trying to decipher whether you are seeing 1.012 or 1.016. With this it is clear and obvious where your product is finishing.
Be careful with it. The thin top breaks easily.
Much easier to read and certainly more accurate.
First off, I love the idea. Trying to read the FG on my standard hydrometer was always a challenge and this tool is great given the wide spacings between gravity points. With that said it is way too fragile. No matter how careful you are accidents will happen and the stem on this will break very easily greatly reducing its life span. I broke mine after the first use when I was using it to take an SG sample and the hydrometer jar tipped over spilling beer and breaking the hydrometer in two. I realize it was my fault and I've taken countless samples without the jar tipping over but like I said accidents can/will happen. Clearly luck was not on my side and my first tip over was with this but I still think I'll wait until they come out with something a little more durable.
Looks like a great product unfortunately is very, very fragile. I'm not sure if it arrived broke or I break it trying to open the container, which by the way is difficult to open, very important in such a fragile item.
Would have love to use it.
Mine also arrived broken, but MoreBeer sent me a new one within a few days. Great customer service!!
These things just can't bounce off of a concrete floor.
I thought I was being careful. I saw it sliding out of the tube, but didn't react fact enough to stop it.
I see others say the range is 0.990 to 1.020 but mine had a range of 0.978 to 1.022. I agree that for beer anything less than 1.000 is wasted.
I tested it with water in a wine thief and it worked as well as my triple scale hydrometer did.
I will order another one.
I really didn't want to rate this because I didn't really get to use it on beer, but it was dead on with water and the graduations are 0.001 are about 1/4 inch apart. Even my old eyes can see that.
Very easy to read measurements for the Final Gravity in the range needed. Allows super accurate determination of your final fermented product! Tip is fragile, but comes packed with extra case to protect it from breakage.
Really excited about this as I've had a hard time reading the FG for beers. However, it is just slightly too wide for a wine thief, it has a tendency to get wedged making it useless. So I'm back to the 'regular' wide range hydrometer.
I have no desire to waste beer using a test tube which I guess this is designed for.
They probably need to put a warning in their description so others don't waste their money.
This is nice to use on final gravities for those of us with bad eyes.
I used the hydrometer probably 3 times before I broke it. It worked great when I used it but it broke in half when i took it out of the case. I even was carful with it because I read someone else review about it breaking.
Could never decipher what FG I was hitting with a standard hydrometer. Range is so narrow, and with foam, etc, impossible. The narrow range and big numbers on this hydrometer is like a large button calculator that you can use while wearing mittens.
Takes all the guess work out of figuring out your final gravity. Easy to read and has a great storage case.
I should have bought this as soon as I started brewing. The expanded scale makes it easy to get precise readings and know when fermentation is really complete with same consecutive readings. Protective sleeve has kept it from breaking for over a year now.
I bought this to try and dial in more accurate final gravity readings. The measurements are accurate, and easy to read. I've found that the range works perfectly for the beers that I brew (mostly mid-strength ales), but agree with pclemon that shifting the range up to 1.03 would be helpful for larger beers.
The stem is surprisingly sturdy for how delicate it looks, and the case includes a stem sleeve that adds a little extra protection in storage.
Reads .99-1.02. Since I use it for beer and not wine the range from .99-1.00 is pretty well useless... but certainly some of the larger beers don't finish below 1.02 so for brewing purposes a range of 1.00-1.03 would have been preferable. That said - it's accurate and easy to read.
I'm surprised that I haven't broken it yet. Works great, the expanded scale makes it much easier to read.
As fermentation begins to slow down it's nice to know where your gravity is at toward the end. The larger scale on this precision hydrometer gives a more precise reading and takes out the guess work when the beer is done.
There are a few things in the home brewery that I can't live without... my final gravity hydrometer is one of them. It works like any other hydro, but with larger and easier to read graduated lines. I get an accurate FG every time. Love it.
The standard hydrometer can be difficult to read due to the closely spaced increments. This hydrometer makes reading the final gravity much easier due to the longer spaced gravity increments. It gives a more precise reading too.