I thought you were gonna say you broke your hydrometer and I was BAFFLED. Sorry about the cylinder though. Rest in pepperonis.

I always buy the cheap plastic graduated cylinders. (No less breakable than glass, just cheaper). I like to buy hydrometers three or more at a time. I use one, hide one, and the third i like to break over a naturally occurring deposit of iron or nickel ore at midnight during a full moon while dancing widdershins and reciting incantations. This appeases the brew gods...😅

Amazed it broke the bottom of the tube rather than the hydrometer itself, I have lost a lot of hydrometers in the same way.

I use a cheap plastic cylinder but I try to never drop my hydrometer in to avoid breaking it. Thank you for reminding me to be careful with my equipment.

Oh no! Thanks for the note. BTW, I'm pretty sure my first measurement was off on that batch I asked questions about. It finished up just fine. I think it was 1.095 not 1.195. Lol. BIG difference. Just not knowing how to read it correctly. So they finished at 13 ish %... I'm excited to try them this weekend. Thank you for your guidance.

Dun dun dun! I’ll take a broken tube over a broken hydrometer any day! Though I haven’t ran into either issue since using my herculometer. 😂💚

I have been doing this... ouch... and thanks for the heads up!

Luckily, the cylinder I use is about 24 years old and made of plastic. I bought it when I was doing my failed attempt to study biology. But anyway I'm pretty sure my hydropeter will break sooner or later, because things made of glass have a limited life expectancy in my vicinity. 😂

I've been there...🤬 I ordered a plastic one from Amazon and received a glass one.😂 I still want a plastic one...😆 Cheers! 🤠🥃

Bummer. Thank you for the PSA!

Bummer! 😢

**cautionary tale** From working in a science lab setting for 30 years, broken glass is just a thing you accept, but still every time it happens, I get just a little mad at myself. It's usually an avoidable thing, just a little more cautiousness and it wouldn't have happened. In less than 3 weeks, I smashed two items: a hydrometer measuring cylinder because it fell over, because I didn't move it out of the way as I was moving my big pitcher. Then, brand new cylinder, same scenario, but the safety collar was in the right place so the cylinder didn't break as it hit the counter top. However the hydrometer inside the cylinder did not survive. BBs and glass not fun. TLDR: lay your equipment down as much as possible.

I gently laid my hydrometer into my glass beaker and the whole hydrometer shattered from the bottom.. didn't even realize it was broken until I went to pick it back up again. That was the 2nd hydrometer I broke lol. So I got a polycarbonate hydrometer and never have issues now

I was expecting this to be about the Hydroppeter, not the graduated cylinder. Good to know.. Hope cleanup was easy and you found all the glass before the fuzzballs.

Dang! Almost did that with my last brew. Always freak when I put the hydrometer in and it clangs.

RIP 💔

I went with the buy 2 theory... I broke several Hydrometers until I did this, so I did the same with cylinders, lol. It seems to have worked for me. ;)

My problem was that I didn't have enough liquid in my cylinder and my hydrometer broke once I dropped it in confidently. I will use the Amazon link lol

I did that too

I messed up enough that the hydrometer went through the glass bottom and broke on the floor. Trying to do better but some training wheels will never come off. Plastic for me.

Real pain. Im im northern Canada and have broken 3. Takes a week to get, which, of course throws everything out the window lol

I recently experienced something similar. was sanitizing my equipment and my glass cylinder fell over ON TOP of my hydrometer. Smashed the hydrometer into a million tiny glass shards. I can now say with authority that it's just a piece of printed paper in there, stuffed in the hydrometer.. makes me think with enough shaking the paper could slide and change the results....

Did they same lol back to plastic.

RIP cylinder; since i made the (probably common) mistake of getting a measuring cylinder that is way too big i thought about getting an acrylic tube with the right diameter and length for my hydrometer and close it off at the bottom using a silicone bung. That would make for easy cleaning and avoid this issue, given that the bung stays in place.

Give it a few shots of FLEX SEAL, it'll be fine.

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😢 I’ve done the same. It sucks not paying attention sometimes.

Hi all, I hope it’s ok for me to ask this here! I’m thinking about dumping a mead for the first time. I made a pomegranate mead using pomegranate juice I found at Aldi. The mostly finished mead (it is pasteurized but not bottled) tastes very much like the bitter hard seeds of the pomegranate, to the point that it is strongly reminiscent of mustard… Is there anything I can do to save it? I’m open to all suggestions. Thank you!!

This is a fear of mine, up there with spiders and snakes. I prefer the glass cylinder and had looked for a replacement, just in case, without it coming with the hydrometer (I have 3 already). If you find a replacement please let everyone know.

💔RIP why not use plastic cylinder tube?

It Must have been imported...." Fra-gi-lee"..😅

I broke a hydrometer doing the same thing

I have never broken a hydrometer... however... I baaaarely tapped the hydrometer to the lip of it's glass test tube jar and a 2" crack appeared down from the lip of the jar. I now have a plastic test jar. SIgh.

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LOL

After breaking 2 of them 9i dropped them) I got a plastic one

That is awful. I have 3 hydrometers, 2 for beer and wine, specific gravity type, I keep a spare just in case... and a balling type I've had since the mid ninety's.

Mine is plastic 😋

Hy-Dropiter... yup, been there, did that. Time to get The Unbreakable Hydrometer out...

Fill the cylinder first. Then the hydrometer doesn't reach the bottom. Yes I learned this lesson the hard way. Oh and thanks to CSB I now have a hurculometer and no longer have issues with broken hydrometers