Complex sentence: The Baumé scale is occasionally used in France and by U.S. brewers, and in the New World the term Brix is used to describe the readings of a refractometer when measuring the sugar content of a given sample.
Split into simpler sentences: The Baumé scale is occasionally used in France and by U.S. brewers, and in the New World. The Brix scale is used to describe the readings of a refractometer when measuring the sugar content of a given sample.