Brix in fruits, vegetables, juices, wine, soft drinks and in the starch and sugar manufacturing industry. Different countries use the scales in different industries: In brewing, the UK uses specific gravity X 1000; Europe uses Plato degrees; and the US use a mix of specific gravity, degrees Brix, degrees Baumé, and degrees Plato. For fruit juices, 1.0 degree Brix is denoted as 1.0% sugar by mass. This usually correlates well with perceived sweetness. Modern optical Brix meters are divided into two categories. In the first are the Abbe-based instruments in which a drop of the sample solution is placed on a
Part 2 (Brix & the Extricated album) Part 2 (Brix & the Extricated album) Part 2 is the debut studio album by Brix & the Extricated, released on 22 September 2017 on Blang Records. The album was made available on black or clear vinyl, CD and download. A video for the track "Damned For Eternity" was filmed by the documentary maker Dan Edelstyn. It was released to critical acclaim, awarded 9/10 by Marc Burrows of "Drowned in Sound", who, acknowledging that three of the band are ex-Fall members, wrote "the new songs are what really impress, glowing with a sparky freshness few saw coming. Groups made from