How to Use the Brix Meter
(1) Cleaning of the Brix Meter The Brix meter should be cleaned with the wort to be tested, and cannot be washed with water or other liquids to avoid changes in the concentration of the wort and obtain accurate measurement results as much as possible. In the same way, in order to make the temperature of the wort in the measuring cylinder evenly mixed, the spiral stirring rod should also be washed with the wort to be measured.
(2) Cooling of wort Take a small amount of wort and put it in a metal cylinder. There is a metal cooling jacket outside the metal cylinder, which can cool the wort to about 20°C, because the sugar meter is calibrated at 20°C. Of course, during cooling, it is necessary not only to ensure that the wort cannot be diluted, but also to avoid the increase in concentration caused by the evaporation of water in the wort.
(3) Reading of the Brix Meter Carefully hold the upper end of the Brix meter, slowly put it on the scale of the estimated value, wait for a while, after the Brix meter is stable, read the thin tube from the convex scale where the wort and the Brix meter are in contact display value.
Then check the correction value corresponding to the temperature scale of the lower half of the sugar meter. If the temperature of the measured wort is higher than 20°C, add the correction value to the displayed value of the sugar meter; when it is lower than 20°C, the displayed value of the sugar meter must be Subtract the correction value. If a certain accuracy meter reading is 11.6°P, and the correction value under 20°C is 0.2°P, then the wort concentration is 11.6-0.2=11.4°P, that is, at 20°C, 100kg of the wort contains 11.4kg Leachables.
Note: Although the temperature-attached sugar glucometer has temperature compensation, the temperature compensation requires time, and the temperature should not be too high. It is recommended to control the temperature of the wort as much as possible at about 20°C when measuring.
