Milwaukee 0 to 85% Brix Digitial Refractometer - MA871

Great instrument. Very user-friendly and accurate repeatable measurements. Easy to clean up after use.

This product falls into one of those categories - it is something that you should have, but can't justify spending more money on a lab grade piece of equipment. There are too many other things that I need in brewing beer, and my hydrometers work rather well. The problem with using a hydrometer is the wasted beer. How much easier it is to pull several drops from your fermenting beer than to drain it into a test jar and then pitch it. After reading a lot about digital refractometers, I settled on this one. To begin with, this is a precision instrument. After it arrived, I quickly assessed that a carrying case was definitely needed. Having it packed into a padded case allows me to sleep well every night. The instrument arrived in great condition, packaged really well. READ THE DIRECTIONS. Although you might think it is easy, take 5-minutes out of your precious time and read the directions. It might not reveal anything that you do not already know, but it does allow you to rest assured that when you take the reading the proper way, and clean the pan after each use. It is also important to understand how Brix is different than OG/FG is different than Plato. If you use this instrument as it should be used and treat it as a precision instrument, anyone who brews beer should find this produce one of the best investments they make on any piece of equipment.

Very useful and accurate for measuring the brix with my jams. It’s the second one I buy

Not cheep but definitely did its job. Only wish the numerical display was a little larger. Keep in mind it’s not a small meter. I would recommend buying the case for it.

My Hanna digital refractometer failed after light use for 3 years. The Milwaukee Instruments digital refractometer is an identical unit, same accuracy and specifications, same configuration, shape, etc. but in a different color. Moreover, both units are manufactured in Europe, I would suggest by the same manufacture who only changes the outer case for each company. The Milwaukee Instruments versions is way less expensive. I use the device for my home brewing hobby and am tremendously pleased. I have compared both OG and FG to hydrometer measurements and have found no difference. Also, I find the digital refractometer well worth the investment as compared to standard refractometers - no more looking through a small eyepiece, no need for calculations to correct for temperature, etc.

La uso para clasificar calostros de vacas

The product information claims that this is "ideal" for beer brewing but I would argue it is at best of limited use and at worst totally useless. If you are planning to buy this product for your beer brewing you will not be happy with it. If I could return this unit and get back my money on this purchase I would but unfortunately I was too slow in realizing the issue. I was really looking forward to using the brix meter for my beer brewing. The ease of use and increase in efficiency would greatly simplify brew and bottling days. However, after a few months of missing my expected gravity readings and agonizing about what I was doing wrong on the brewing process, I started questioning the accuracy of the readings. I compared to a reading using a glass hydrometer and realized my brix meter was way off and reading about 3 brix higher than what the manual reading showed (the hydrometer reading was bang on my expected gravity). I did read some product reviews later about the accuracy at lower brix (below 20) being inaccurate which I wish I would have seen earlier. There is another unit made by this brand that measures brix from 0 to 50 whereas this one measures from 0 to 85. Perhaps the other unit is more accurate? I have no idea but I'm not interested in buying another unit to test out if this is true. Overall I would say that I am very disappointed with this product because this it is pretty expensive and it did not meet my expectations. It should be clear in the description of the product that certain ranges are more accurate than others if this is the case. I would definitely not recommend this product for beer brewing use.

I use this refractomer to measure the brix of a rye mash, which is too thick to measure by hydrometer. Seems to do the job just fine. At any rate, the rye is good.

Great product for quickly testing sugar at the vineyard. Very quick to set up and super easy to use!

Non pensavo fosse così valido , basta utilizzarlo corettamente

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Varía mucho si se realizan varias lecturas de una misma muestra

I bought 3 of these for the sauce and beverage business I work for to replace the hand held manual refractometers. The human error/variation has been eliminated, and we're able to dial in the product without the "Drift" we see in product consistency from batch to batch. Inexpensive enough to justify for a home business and a rugged enough for strategic placement within a factory environment to reduce wasted trips to a larger version. Not as convenient as a small hand held Atago refractometer, but far less likely to be lost or broken. Challenge testing (using all 3 at once) consistently provides identical readings on samples with a Brix of near zero and up to 77 (the max is rated to 85.0). I feel the trade-off is worth it and will buy again if we ever need another. Highly recommend and am very pleased with the product.