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Offline JKL

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Hey Y'all.....and has anyone used one of these?
« on: November 03, 2010, 10:42:45 am »
Hey guys!!!  love the forum (especially 'cause it clears the firewall here at work).  I'm finally back to brewing after a 3 year hiatus.  I brewed a strong stout (1.072 OG) 3 weeks ago and aside from a few rookie mistakes everything went well until after the brew session.  I pitched my yeast into my wort that was too warm and had troubles stabilizing my fermentation temps (swamp cooler method).  That being said, I found this on the net the other day.  I've got an extra temp controller just lying around I was wondering if anyone has uses one of these or something like it to monitor fermentation temps?   

 http://www.brewershardware.com/Straight-Wall-Thermowells/

Offline dak0415

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Re: Hey Y'all.....and has anyone used one of these?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2010, 11:10:58 am »
I use the 16" in my fermenter, inside a chest freezer.  I squoze it through the small tail on a carboy cap and use the large nipple for the blowoff tube.  Works great!
Dave Koenig
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Offline corkybstewart

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Re: Hey Y'all.....and has anyone used one of these?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2010, 12:00:34 pm »
I've got an ugly homemade one from the diptube of a 3 gallon keg.   I love it.  I use it in my conical siting in an insulated box I built with a window AC as a cooling source.  I brewed a bunch of beers with Nottingham earlier this year and was able to keep them at 58F fermentation temp using the thermowell and Ranco controller.
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