Hi @Xris! Thanks so much for taking the time to create and share this video. We have taken your feedback regarding the scale, its functions, as well as your thoughts on the apps back to our team. In regards to your comments on the built, you are correct in assuming that it has an exterior better suited to a commercial environment (so avoiding exterior metal or glass). The reason the scale is heavier is due to the inner components being reinforced with metal to keep it extra secure. Please let us know if you have any questions (we also loved the intro).

Another scale with a similar look and feel is the Timemore Black Mirror! Though it doesn't have the same app support, it does have a really similar workflow and design for a considerably lower price. It also charges via type-c which I think should be a given by 2021 haha. Great video again man, always enjoy your production quality!

Very good review . Clear, concise & fair. Thank you.

Insane quality production as always Xris!

Your cinematography is incredible. Great video!

Awesome intro dude! Would u be able to compare the Pearl S vs the new 2021 Acacia Pearl? I’m having a hard time choosing between the 2😣

Fantastic intro holy shit. Great video as always

Be great to see an app review and tutorial, great vids

Nice review. I actually have the same cheapo digital scale that you use and find it perfect for espresso with my lever machine. But if I were to do more pour over I could see the advantages of an app connected scale. I think I'll stick with my $10 scale for now ... but again thanks for the review.

Cool video guy! I’m considering one of these scales and after watching this video…. The Pearl S seems like the most appropriate choice for me. I like some of the tech, but I really like it gives you GUIDANCE for the brews, and that’s something I could really benefit from.

Super cool intro!

I have the OXO coffee scale and while its nothing super fancy, for $40 it looks great and is very precise. However if i do decide to upgrade one day it'll probably be for the pearl. mostly bc aesthetics but the features are cool. Also love your videos! Your videos on the rocket helped me decide thats the one i want to get soon.

That intro 🔥🔥🔥

Sick intro!🔥🔥

Very informative thank you for the review. Would be a lovely little gadget to have. Would like to have but I don't need it. I think it's overkill. I use an elcheapo kitchen scale for my breville barista express at home and i time via my garmin smart watch ! I get a great shot every time! Happy brewing! 😊😊😊😊😊😊

I use my scale for meds, baking and coffee so 0.1g minimum is key. The cheap £10-£20 scales available on UK also fail in some way or other. So maybe spend £60-£120 on cheap scales over two years or spend £200 once. For my use the minimum weight is key though. The max 3kg is great as well in kitchen.

Would love to see a comparison with the Timemore Black Mirror. I think Acaia is a great company with great products but as you alluded the scale is probably near the bottom of my list of things I'd recommend a coffee newbie to spend money on upgrading. A basic but accurate scale will get you 90% of the way there for so much less money.

EDIT: THE ACAIA LUNAR REVIEW: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rp9oabKBz9nNYoU.html Okay so it looks like I’m not looking at the camera, but I actually am. I think my lighting cast a shadow over my eyes in a way such that half my eyes caught the light and half were darkened. Weird but I’ll fix it for the next vid! Also will fix audio in future vids!

I would look at Felicita Arc, its cheaper version and its as small as Acaia lunar.

Do a round up/comparison of cheap sub $50 scales or something lol

Hi, thanks for the guide. How’d you peel off the plastic liner on the scale? I didn’t see any pull tab on mine, and I noticed in your video that yours didn’t come with one either. Thanks!

Does the timer only start once coffee is being extracted? 😊

1:36 Sorry, have to disagree with that. What are the wider variety of factors that can influence your final cup? Anything that can go wrong with a pourover, imagine it going wrong while under pressure, and you have espresso. And with regards to pouring method, how is the scale supposed to reflect anything other than how quickly you pour? It cannot record the height you pour from, how much agitation you're creating in your slurry, and it cannot tell you how well you're distributing your water. It cannot even tell you if you're leaving grounds high and dry. The only thing the scale measures is how quickly the water leaves your kettle and enters your slurry. It does not tell you anything about how the water percolates through the coffee bed and exits to the carafe. If you develop a channel, this is completely undetected by the scale. Contrast this with espresso, where the scale measures what exits the brew basket. This means that if you develop a channel, your flow rate will increase, and a smart scale will indicate this on the graph. This actually might have come in handy in your Workflow Wednesday video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pchonc9z2NSVk30.html where for a brew weight of 40g and extraction time of 22s, towards the end of the extraction, the readings on your $12 scale are actually jumping in 2g increments! Your puck probably had already disintegrated, and the extraction is gushing at that point. A smart scale graph would have made this immediately obvious. Your subsequent shot was even worse, and reached 47g in 24s!

Well done. After owning this scale for 6 months now here are some additional negatives . Terrible apps. I mean why is there 3 apps for this scale?! Terribly confusing. Micro usb?! What is this 2016?! Usb C please! No way to sort the options. Option 1 auto tare auto start, option 2 - regular scale option 3 brew guide. It’s a bit annoying as I weigh my beans first and the timer starts but I use the auto start when I brew v60 or aero press

But for any Rocket machine, the Lunar is the one...espresso & Lunar pair best of the best, no cap

Do not buy! I purchased one a few months ago. I had a number of problems, would not stay in the mode I preset, difficult to turn of, random digits flashing after carafe had been removed. Acaia Australia insisted that there was nothing wrong with the scale. Did they think that I had paid to ship it back from New Zealand and be without a scale just for my amusement. For the supposedly premium coffee scale their after sales service is pathetic. Great scale if it works but if it doesn’t you are left high and dry.

the size is why i got the lunar :(

Hi Xris, After a year, are you still using the Brewguide mode? It would be great to see it in action with one of the popular V60 methods uploaded to it (4:6, Hoffmann, etc.)

You edit your videos to be too quiet, so it makes watching them frustrating when I have to crank the volume to hear you and then get my ears blasted out when an ad loads. Fix your audio levels pls. I’m basically at the point of refusing to watch what you post.