Rethinking Refractometers: VST, Atago, and DiFluid; Part 1

Coffee Data Science

Joe, Jeremy, and Robert

Refractometers have been growing in use over the past few years by people serious about consistently brewing tasty coffee as these devices provide an invaluable and relatively easy objective metric in this largely subjective space. The downside, however, is that to achieve high accuracy and precision, which is particularly important for lower concentration brew methods (e.g., filter), the devices generally cost a lot of money.

VST/MISCO and Atago, with their tangled past, have …

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