Does anyone know where I can buy a glass cylinder for a hydrometer? It seems the most likely candidate is a 100ml graduated clyinder, but the ones I have found so far will only record og but bottom out before you get to fg.
Contact Brewing America
I used to have one. Broke it.
Pretty sure I got from northern brewer or more beer.
That’s the one I use. I think my LHBS got it from Homebrew Supply. It takes about 125 ml of wort to make it work, but it’s good when you have to do an FG with a precision hydrometer.
Charlie
I had that glass cylinder also. But it broke partly because the base is removable and doesn’t fit particularly well. Now I use a plastic cylinder with a built in base. Safer and easier.
I bought one of the Brewing America hydrometers that Denny suggests… dropped the cylinder on the concrete basement floor and the only thing that broke was the ring at the base. Any other brand would have completely shattered. Mine won’t stand on its own anymore but it still serves the function so I haven’t bothered to replace it yet.
I’ve found them to be both remarkably accurate and extremely well made. In addition, it seems like they use a smaller sample than others.
Once I bounced a clamp off everything in the brewery to include my glass hydro jar like the one I linked to. Afterwards, I just went with plastic.
I only take two readings: once for OG to calibrate the Tilt and once for FG to verify the Tilt.
I keep reading this over and over thinking I am reading it wrong because i don’t understand any of it except “Afterwards. I went with plastic.”
Autocorrect? What do you mean you bounced a clamp off everything? I have been brewing for years and reading about brewing and never heard of Tilt.
The Tilt is a hydrometer that is left in the fermenter throughout fermentation and emits a signal to record the gravity at intervals of a few seconds.
The clamp he dropped broke several glass items and he replaced the broken items with plastic ones.
I think.
Cheers!
Sorry Pete. Ynotbrusome is spot on.
I dropped a clamp I use to hold things in the brewery. It bounced around and broke my hydrometer flask. So, I use my old plastic one now.
Tilt is a floating hydrometer that constantly reads and logs specific gravity.
Ha, I thought “bounced a clamp” may have been a figure of speech. I was aware of the Bluetooth hydro meters but never heard of tilt.
It was one of those epic moments that developed in slow motion. I reached for the clamp, it got hung on something, it flew out of my hand, defied the laws of gravity by hitting everything within a four foot radius above and below as I was screaming NO! It broke my measuring glass for Iodophor and the hydrometer flask. It knocked over everything that could be knocked over as I stood there in disbelief. …and generally just made a big @$$ mess at the end of an otherwise uneventfully smooth brewday.
Nothing like that ever happened to me 
You couldn’t do that again if you tried!
That’s a very funny story that we can all easily relate to! 
The gremlins always strike when we least expect them.
Two of the corollaries to Murphy’s Law are that the likelihood of an object falling is directly proportional to the amount of damage said fall can cause, and dropped objects will ALWAYS fall where they can cause the most damage.
If you can find one, i had a glass test tube that was a perfect length for my hydrometre and fit super snuggly without being tight. probably 100ml in total. so good. i broke it once and since all i could find was a 200ml plastic tube… so sad
+1
LOL
Well said!