Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

Honestly how many hydrometers have you broken?
I started in 2002 and this is my 7th batch of wine.
2 - hydrometers down
1 - 6.5 gallon carboy (empty thank goodness)
Lots of wine glasses.
Please make me feel better.
Thanks for your honesty!
Adam

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

The hydrometer is the most breakable piece of wine-making equipment.
I have no idea how many I have broken. Best advice: get a deal on a
half-dozen. It seems like they don't break as easily then.

My brother broke his hydrometer before he started his first batch. He
was giving everything a good cleaning the night before starting his
first, and the hydrometer rolled onto the floor.

Steve

On 15 Mar 2007 20:49:15 -0700, " >
wrote:

>Honestly how many hydrometers have you broken?
>I started in 2002 and this is my 7th batch of wine.
>2 - hydrometers down
>1 - 6.5 gallon carboy (empty thank goodness)
>Lots of wine glasses.
>Please make me feel better.
>Thanks for your honesty!
>Adam

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

To break on before it is used! That is sad.

I have been making wine for 30+ years and make anywhere from 20 to 80
gallons a year. I have broken 3 or 4 in that time. Thank goodness they are
cheap. I agree that you should have more than one. You do not want to be
in the middle of starting a batch and break one. I also agree than haveing
several seems to prevent their breakage. I have had 3 for the last 10 years
and recently bought 2 more specialty ones. I have not brocken one in all
that time. (If I break one tonight I will curse you for asking this fool
question!) ;o)

Ray

"Steve" > wrote in message
...
> The hydrometer is the most breakable piece of wine-making equipment.
> I have no idea how many I have broken. Best advice: get a deal on a
> half-dozen. It seems like they don't break as easily then.
>
> My brother broke his hydrometer before he started his first batch. He
> was giving everything a good cleaning the night before starting his
> first, and the hydrometer rolled onto the floor.
>
> Steve
>
> On 15 Mar 2007 20:49:15 -0700, " >
> wrote:
>
>>Honestly how many hydrometers have you broken?
>>I started in 2002 and this is my 7th batch of wine.
>>2 - hydrometers down
>>1 - 6.5 gallon carboy (empty thank goodness)
>>Lots of wine glasses.
>>Please make me feel better.
>>Thanks for your honesty!
>>Adam
>

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

7 stitches from a yardsale carboy (full of sanitizer, thank god!) as it
spontaneously split whist hoisting it onto the laundry counter.
2 hydrometers, one snapped when accidentally tapped, one rolled off the
bench, basement floor (Man down! Man down!)
2 test tubes from acid test kits hit the floor - too many quality control
tests ;^)

1 thermometer: sat on it, still don't know how it got onto the lounge
chair....

over 11 years brewing & fermenting, stuff happens. to beermeister charlie
papazian, "relax, have a homebrew..."



> wrote in message
oups.com...
> Honestly how many hydrometers have you broken?
> I started in 2002 and this is my 7th batch of wine.
> 2 - hydrometers down
> 1 - 6.5 gallon carboy (empty thank goodness)
> Lots of wine glasses.
> Please make me feel better.
> Thanks for your honesty!
> Adam
>

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

> I have a philosophy. In skiing they say if you
> don't fall you aren't being aggressive enough and
> not challenged. Sooo - my theory goes that if in
> wine making if you aren't breaking things, you
> aren't making much wine or not making much
> progress in your winemaking efforts. Hey, it
> works for me.


I like that theory, I have no idea how many I have broken. It's at
least 5 probably 10.

Joe

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

I guess I'm being too careful ... still using the hydrometer I bought
in 1984 ...

Bryan


On 15 Mar 2007 20:49:15 -0700, " >
wrote:

>Honestly how many hydrometers have you broken?
>I started in 2002 and this is my 7th batch of wine.
>2 - hydrometers down
>1 - 6.5 gallon carboy (empty thank goodness)
>Lots of wine glasses.
>Please make me feel better.
>Thanks for your honesty!
>Adam

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

On Mar 15, 10:49 pm, " > wrote:
> Honestly how many hydrometers have you broken?
> I started in 2002 and this is my 7th batch of wine.
> 2 - hydrometers down
> 1 - 6.5 gallon carboy (empty thank goodness)
> Lots of wine glasses.
> Please make me feel better.
> Thanks for your honesty!
> Adam

funny, I was dinngin thru som eold junk and found a small hydrometer.

washed it, set it aside to dry, played with it for a bit, then
promptly lost it.

Its been 3 days now and i cant find it, or parts of it, or the cool
case it was in.

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

On Mar 19, 9:19 pm, "Tater" > wrote:
> On Mar 15, 10:49 pm, " > wrote:
>
> > Honestly how many hydrometers have you broken?
> > I started in 2002 and this is my 7th batch of wine.
> > 2 - hydrometers down
> > 1 - 6.5 gallon carboy (empty thank goodness)
> > Lots of wine glasses.
> > Please make me feel better.
> > Thanks for your honesty!
> > Adam
>
> funny, I was dinngin thru som eold junk and found a small hydrometer.
>
> washed it, set it aside to dry, played with it for a bit, then
> promptly lost it.
>
> Its been 3 days now and i cant find it, or parts of it, or the cool
> case it was in.

Do you have children? If not I saw a Twilight Zone about missing
things once. There are little trolls that create time and sometimes
they forget to put some stuff in there or move things around a
little. It made sense to me until I had kids and now I know those
trolls have nothing on my kids. I found my car keys in the bottom of
the box I keep my filter in - in the back of the cabinet under some
other stuff. Those trolls - I mean kids.

Oops... I broke my hydrometer.
 

Ahhh yes! Yahooty did it. He is the little man that winds electric clocks
and steals socks from the drier and such.

Ray

> wrote in message
oups.com...
> On Mar 19, 9:19 pm, "Tater" > wrote:
>> On Mar 15, 10:49 pm, " > wrote:
>>
>> > Honestly how many hydrometers have you broken?
>> > I started in 2002 and this is my 7th batch of wine.
>> > 2 - hydrometers down
>> > 1 - 6.5 gallon carboy (empty thank goodness)
>> > Lots of wine glasses.
>> > Please make me feel better.
>> > Thanks for your honesty!
>> > Adam
>>
>> funny, I was dinngin thru som eold junk and found a small hydrometer.
>>
>> washed it, set it aside to dry, played with it for a bit, then
>> promptly lost it.
>>
>> Its been 3 days now and i cant find it, or parts of it, or the cool
>> case it was in.
>
> Do you have children? If not I saw a Twilight Zone about missing
> things once. There are little trolls that create time and sometimes
> they forget to put some stuff in there or move things around a
> little. It made sense to me until I had kids and now I know those
> trolls have nothing on my kids. I found my car keys in the bottom of
> the box I keep my filter in - in the back of the cabinet under some
> other stuff. Those trolls - I mean kids.
>