BRIX

[Grey Ghost]

Change the plato preference to brix in your profile general section.
Thanks Pete

 

[Nosybear]

Change the plato preference to brix in your profile general section.
Thanks Pete

Why? The two are practically identical and Plato is more commonly used in beer.

 

[Pricelessbrewing]

The difference between brix and plato is less than 4%, and plato is much more commonly used in the brewing community and industry. We can open a ticket to add brix as an extra option, especially as we move forward with more support for wine/cider/mead. However we will not be replacing plato with brix.

 

[Grey Ghost]

But they are not the same.How many home brewers use Plato .Can we add Brix?

 

[sbaclimber]

How many home brewers use Plato.

I am fairly sure my hydrometer measures Plato / Balling....

 

[Nosybear]

But they are not the same.How many home brewers use Plato .Can we add Brix?

They are identical at our ranges to one part in a thousand. That's close enough for my little brewery. Both measure the percentage of sucrose in a solution by weight. The difference between Plato and Balling are the reference temperature of the solutions (20 degrees C for Plato, 17.5 degrees C for Balling. A sucrose solution with an apparent specific gravity (20°/20 °C) of 1.040 would be 9.99325 °Bx or 9.99359 °P. In other words, to 1 thousandth of a degree, they are identical. In my little brewery, that makes no difference at all.

 

[sbaclimber]

PS....beer tax here in Germany is calculated based on OG°Plato, so I am even more sure my hydrometer is scaled accordingly.

 

[Nosybear]

When I lived on the Mosel, people were always talking about Oechsle... I still have no idea of what scale that is, or if I spelled it correctly...

 

[sbaclimber]

Google to the rescue! (never heard of it myself...): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oechsle_scale

 

[Grey Ghost]

I am fairly sure my hydrometer measures Plato / Balling....

I have 3 hydrometers all only have SG and BRIX.

 

[Grey Ghost]

The difference between brix and plato is less than 4%, and plato is much more commonly used in the brewing community and industry. We can open a ticket to add brix as an extra option, especially as we move forward with more support for wine/cider/mead. However we will not be replacing plato with brix.

Mike just humor this old man and put a ticket in for BRIX

 

[Pricelessbrewing]

Mike just humor this old man and put a ticket in for BRIX

Mark*

Putting in a ticket for the the request, as priorities permit.

 

[Grey Ghost]

Thank You MARK

 

[Grey Ghost]

Mark*

Putting in a ticket for the the request, as priorities permit.

What happened. Can we add brix as a 3rd option.

 

[Minbari]

can we also have measurements for grain in american tons and british tonnes?

 

[Pricelessbrewing]

What happened. Can we add brix as a 3rd option.

Ticket is still open, however this is a very low priority. As @Nosybear said, they're essentially the same for what we're working with.

 

[Nosybear]

Ticket is still open, however this is a very low priority. As @Nosybear said, they're essentially the same for what we're working with.

Unless you're using lab-grade equipment or you're brewing very big beers, you can't measure the difference between the two scales. My suggestion would be rename the units to Plato/Brix.

 

[Grey Ghost]

I think most home brewers use SG or Brix I use brix because that is what my refactor uses. We target the HB's not the pro's

 

[The Brew Mentor]

I think most home brewers use SG or Brix I use brix because that is what my refactor uses. We target the HB's not the pro's

I think you're missing the point.