Newell Instruments Brewometer

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Has anybody tried out the Newell Instruments Brewometer?

Here is the URL for it:

http://www.newellinstruments.com/produc ... meter.html

I saw it on page 7 of the Sept./Oct. 2006 Zymurgy and found it interesting. Yes, it only works in Windows, but it is still intriguing. It could be nice to bring a laptop out to where you're brewing and take gravity readings and what not...well, unless you get wort in the keyboard.

This device also seems to obtain a final gravity, even with alcohol present, so it must be somewhat different than what is happening in a refractometer (unless it does a correction calculation of some sort).

I'll probably just stick with my hydrometer set for gravity readings for now, but maybe if I stumble onto 170 dollars I'll give it a shot.

Again, if anybody owns one of these, I'd like to hear his thoughts about it.

- joe

[BigBadBrad]

It looks like a neat toy, but won't tell me much more than my hydrometer, refractometer and BeerSmith don't already tell me.

Brad

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It looks like a neat toy, but won't tell me much more than my hydrometer, refractometer and BeerSmith don't already tell me.

Yeah, I know. This thing would be nice if it was just a portable, battery-driven device that had an LCD display or the like. The fact that it needs to be hooked up to a computer kind of takes away from its appeal a bit. Essentially something like an Atago PAL-1 ( http://www.atago.net/USA/products_pal.php ) that had all of the features of the Brewometer would be pretty darn nice.

- joe