Son of a CRAP!

Shoot shoot darn and drat, (wish I could swear for real here). Well that was fun.

I'm brewing a BIAB stout, (my second AG BIAB)....and I decided OK, this time I won't use fermcap, I'll watch it hot break etc. Oh, and I'll leave the floating thermometer in there so that when I'm cooling, it will have been sanitized by my one hour boil, and I can use it to read wort temps.

So it comes to a boil. I wait. It hot breaks. Cool! Where's my thermometer?? I can't really see, cuz of all the steam, (keggles are tough to see into!), but the more I look, the more it isn't there.

Finally I find it. I couldn't see it because somehow the stupid RED CAP came off of it during the foaming hot break. I don't know how, (I wasn't stirring or anything), but I had a naked thermometer.

I wanted to get the red piece, cuz I didn't know if it would melt on the bottom of the keggle. I have a strainer, but it doesn't have a long enough handle to reach in. So I had to use a yardstick, and teflon tape to bind the strainer to the yardstick to go fishing. I finally got it out, but damn.

Oh yeah, before I used the yardstick, I first just held the strainer and fished around in there. Forgot I had 220 degree wort in there as well. Boy my hand hurts now.






Soo....Burnt Hand Stout or F&%@ The Thermometer Stout?

burnt hand has a nice ring to it. When i used a floating thermometer I just dipped it in a couple of minutes prior to flame out . Now I use a digital that sits in Some Star San .

I've done that exact same thing. only I just said F it, and left the thermometer in there.

thats some funny stuff.

2nd Degree Stout

That is one of the reasons I bought one of these heavy duty wire probes. Also, I can just let it sit in the mash tun or fermenter throughout the entire process and monitor the temps at will without opening anything up.

KingHippo said:

2nd Degree Stout

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Oh boy, you are a gentleman and a scholar. I'm stealing that.

Thermometers suck a$$ in general. Glad you made the stick and strainer work for you. I used my floating thermometer the same way you did and mine never came apart. However, the red rubber top did become very easy to pull off the glass portion when it was wet and hot. I would imagine thats what happened. I no longer use it because my floating thermometer is completely inaccurate and a absolute piece of junk.

My floating thermometer broke today. Here's to hoping all those lead balls and glass got strained out!