Don't Drop your Hydrometer: How to Make Mead and Wine 

I thought you were gonna say you broke your hydrometer and I was BAFFLED. Sorry about the cylinder though. Rest in pepperonis.

I always buy the cheap plastic graduated cylinders. (No less breakable than glass, just cheaper). I like to buy hydrometers three or more at a time. I use one, hide one, and the third i like to break over a naturally occurring deposit of iron or nickel ore at midnight during a full moon while dancing widdershins and reciting incantations. This appeases the brew gods...😅

Amazed it broke the bottom of the tube rather than the hydrometer itself, I have lost a lot of hydrometers in the same way.

I use a cheap plastic cylinder but I try to never drop my hydrometer in to avoid breaking it. Thank you for reminding me to be careful with my equipment.

That is awful. I have 3 hydrometers, 2 for beer and wine, specific gravity type, I keep a spare just in case... and a balling type I've had since the mid ninety's.

I gently laid my hydrometer into my glass beaker and the whole hydrometer shattered from the bottom.. didn't even realize it was broken until I went to pick it back up again. That was the 2nd hydrometer I broke lol. So I got a polycarbonate hydrometer and never have issues now

My problem was that I didn't have enough liquid in my cylinder and my hydrometer broke once I dropped it in confidently. I will use the Amazon link lol

Give it a few shots of FLEX SEAL, it'll be fine.

I messed up enough that the hydrometer went through the glass bottom and broke on the floor. Trying to do better but some training wheels will never come off. Plastic for me.

I broke a hydrometer doing the same thing

Oh no! Thanks for the note.

Dun dun dun! I’ll take a broken tube over a broken hydrometer any day! Though I haven’t ran into either issue since using my herculometer. 😂💚

I have been doing this... ouch... and thanks for the heads up!

Luckily, the cylinder I use is about 24 years old and made of plastic. I bought it when I was doing my failed attempt to study biology.

Bummer. Thank you for the PSA!

I've been there...🤬 I ordered a plastic one from Amazon and received a glass one.😂 I still want a plastic one...😆

Bummer! 😢

I was expecting this to be about the Hydroppeter, not the graduated cylinder. Good to know.. Hope cleanup was easy and you found all the glass before the fuzzballs.

*cautionary tale*

RIP 💔