Today, I had to add .4g of a salt and discovered the scale we have only goes down to 1 gram and it’s not very good at doing that. I ended up putting a dish on the scale to get it to register a weight, then added a little salts. It makes me uneasy to use it now.
I see 2 scales from our sponsor and the reviews are positive but they to only go down to 1 gram.
What does anyone use to measure salts in tenths of a gram? Does anyone use the scales above and have created a method to achieve tenths of a gram? Are there some other methods used?
There’s enough error in all the other measurements in a brew session that 1g increments should be good enough. But you can get decently close to 0.5g if you slowly add the salt until the scale says 1g - it’s rounding up the weight from just slightly more than 0.5g to 1.
Measure a gram or two, then separate it in halves/quarters by eyeball and call it good at 0.5g. OR measure two grams and put it in a teaspoon/tablespoon and estimate what fraction of that would be by volume.
I’ve got the Escali Primo Scale and think it is awsome. I use it for weighing out grains and hops. But it isn’t precise enough for weighing salts or the additives you would use in wine making. So I got an Escali PR500, which is accurate to 0.1g. Can’t say I’m 100% happy with it though. Yes it’s accurate, but it has an anoying habit of auto shut off after it has been on for a couple minutes - even if it is being used. I’ll be slowly spooning bits of salts into a dish and it turns off in the middle. The Primo only shuts off if the weight on it doesn’t change for a time, which is what I’d expect with a scale.
If you are weighing tiny amounts alot, it is worth getting a scale for it, but if only for beer salts, I got by using measuring spoons for a long time.
