Wine Refractometer

Very good for the price. I made 5% and 20% (w/w) sugar solutions in water and the readings were correct. The plastic cover is very flimsy so you have to be careful when closing and opening the refractometer. Didn’t need to adjust it as the distilled water readings showed 0 on the scale. Scale may be a little difficult to read as it’s quite small.

Works great

Ok

Does its job perfectly.

It makes it so easy to find out what the alcohol is in my homemade wine. Wine said beer had more, bought this and proved her wrong. Haha. So easy to drop a drop on it and look through. Very clear of what the level is.

This refractometer goes up to a higher measurement of refractivity than most of the refractometers for beer, so it can be used for higher gravity brews, e.g. wine and strong mead. That said, I've only used the Brix scale on here and have ignored the other one about "Degree Alcohol." I haven't verified if the automatic temperature correction (ATC) works as intended, so I'm leaving it out of my review. One of the pins holding the clear plastic cover to the hinge was a bit loose and prone to slipping out when the refractometer was held sideways; a dab of super glue fixed that, and I've been quite satisfied with this product. Short update: I've had this refractometer for a little over a year, and it continues to work well. I never have to recalibrate it, and the temperature auto-correction seems to work. I don't really have a way to necessarily verify for sure that the ATC is working, but after plugging in my numbers from the Brix scale into a formula to compute initial specific gravity, it was only .002 off from my target gravity as given by an online calculator. So I'd say it's great!

Muy buen producto

I accidentally became a vintner this year my friends got a second home and would no longer be at their original place for the grape harvest. They were kind enough to give me all of their equipment to use. So, I figured I could do this. After doing a ton of research, I realized there was this one critical piece missing. I figured it would be worth this small investment to give me a better chance at success. Boy, did it! Because to my untrained eyes, those grapes sure look ripe. The meter says otherwise. I probably have another month to watch winemaking videos. It was also nice to send these pictures to them to give them confidence in what I had learned so far. I see many other uses for this as I love making jelly. With this refractometer, I can better figure out how much sugar to add to enhance the sweetness and not overpower the fruit flavor. This is going to be an incredibly useful too. This is an item that I purchased.