I'm a Cellular Biochemist and I study pharmaceutical safety.
fair answer! I meant do you keep your pH solutions around for longer and just use them anyway. I guess you probably have access to them as often as you need through work though
Posted 10 January 2017 - 10:46 AM
I'm a Cellular Biochemist and I study pharmaceutical safety.
fair answer! I meant do you keep your pH solutions around for longer and just use them anyway. I guess you probably have access to them as often as you need through work though
Posted 10 January 2017 - 11:06 AM
Posted 10 January 2017 - 12:20 PM
Posted 10 January 2017 - 12:25 PM
I got a Milwaukee MH102. I bet its great but the probe was fuxored out of the box, so i've never used it. So, yeah, maybe Omega is better.
I also have the 102 and I never liked it as much as the Omega.
Posted 10 January 2017 - 01:23 PM
Posted 10 January 2017 - 04:55 PM
This thread got me to check when my last calibration was. Turns out I had not calibrated in 11 months. Mixed up some fresh solution and checked it. +0.03 @7.00 and -0.02 @4.00. I'm pretty comfortable with that.
Posted 10 January 2017 - 05:02 PM
I would be too.This thread got me to check when my last calibration was. Turns out I had not calibrated in 11 months. Mixed up some fresh solution and checked it. +0.03 @7.00 and -0.02 @4.00. I'm pretty comfortable with that.
Posted 12 January 2017 - 07:18 AM
I'm really waffling on this. my wife asked if I wanted anything for my b-day. will this make my life so much better? ugh I hate being cheap sometimes.
Posted 12 January 2017 - 07:24 AM
Make your life better? Maybe not. Will it let you know you are hitting your pH - yes. I am a numbers guy. I like to know that where I am in the process and document it down. If something is wrong I want to find out why. If you are happy with the beer and your strips then maybe you do not need it.
Posted 12 January 2017 - 07:41 AM
I don't know that I'm a numbers guy but I do want to know various things that will have an impact on my beer and I HATE instruments that don't work or are unreliable. I don't look at my OG or FG anymore because I used to check it every time and it was always right where the software said it would be so in that case I'm not a numbers guy. I don't really care about checking efficiency either... I did that for the first 50 all-grain batches I did and they were all in the same zip code. But I want to know my mash temp so I got the Thermapen and I wanted to see where I was in terms of pH (I was not getting my pH low enough with the ColorpHast strips) so I got the Omega meter. I don't know if it makes your life better but I do like the idea that I am confident in my control of various parts of my brewing and that I'm not working with a blindfold in some of the areas I consider important. I'll add this: Having the meter has been educational enough for me that I could now probably work without a meter. I keep good notes on each style of beer I make and know how to get the pH where I want it. The meter is more of a formality now but I wouldn't be able to say that without getting the meter in the first place.Make your life better? Maybe not. Will it let you know you are hitting your pH - yes. I am a numbers guy. I like to know that where I am in the process and document it down. If something is wrong I want to find out why. If you are happy with the beer and your strips then maybe you do not need it.
Posted 12 January 2017 - 07:48 AM
Make your life better? Maybe not. Will it let you know you are hitting your pH - yes. I am a numbers guy. I like to know that where I am in the process and document it down. If something is wrong I want to find out why. If you are happy with the beer and your strips then maybe you do not need it.
I like the beer but could it be better? I can't be sure b/c I can't really trust the strips or my ability to read them. they are only good for ball park and mine are pretty old so I question how good they are now.
Posted 12 January 2017 - 07:53 AM
I like the beer but could it be better? I can't be sure b/c I can't really trust the strips or my ability to read them. they are only good for ball park and mine are pretty old so I question how good they are now.
It could always be better .. at least that is what I tell myself
Posted 12 January 2017 - 08:11 AM
Yeah, that's what I'm usually thinking. It also seems like the thing where if you were trying to troubleshoot an issue, you will know some answers right away and lessen the variables that you have to deal with. I always hated when I would ask a question on a board about a certain issue and someone would say, "What was your mash pH?". Umm... well, my strips were kind of olive green. I don't have all the answers but I do know many of them because of my instruments. I need to be able to rely on them. Another part of it is that I have been brewing on a really, really old-school system this entire time... since 2004. I do not have a brewing rig that would take up one garage stall. I don't have a direct-fired MT, a plate chiller, pumps, electronic control pad, etc. I have a cooler, immersion chiller, standard vanilla 10g kettle, etc. Very manual and very simple. I can afford a decent thermometer and pH meter.It could always be better .. at least that is what I tell myself
Posted 12 January 2017 - 08:15 AM
Same here. It's my wife I need to convince that it could be better when I buy a $100 meter.It could always be better .. at least that is what I tell myself
Posted 12 January 2017 - 08:32 AM
Posted 12 January 2017 - 09:05 AM
Any way to lower the sting of the cost of the meter by using it for other things? When I'm researching a pH issue sometimes I notice that people use their meter for things other than homebrewing... like cooking, aquariums and gardening. Just a thought.
I don't think I need to measure any other pH numbers....
Posted 12 January 2017 - 09:07 AM
just to make sure this is the stuff I'd need right?
Posted 12 January 2017 - 09:13 AM
Posted 12 January 2017 - 09:19 AM
the shipping from omega is just a flat $10 so if the storage and cal solutions are a reasonable price there might not be a downside to ordering them right from the start.
the PHA-7 is this: 7.00 pH buffer solution 500 ml (1 pint) bottle
the other two are what you would expect, pH 4 and pH 10 buffer solutions (1 pint each).
so I guess you store in 7.00 pH and then calibrate with the 4 and 10?
Posted 12 January 2017 - 09:27 AM
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