dawalkertiger
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I’m a new brewer here. Have my first conditioning in the bottle (extract Kolsch-style that I got with my kit), and my version of the all grain BIAB Reapers Mild from azscoob in the fermenter (9 days in). I use plastic buckets to ferment in (typical 6.5 gallon size with drilled lids). Both were 5 gallon batches.
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My question is, with the weather finally starting to warm up around the country, I’ve been seeing a ton of posts on here regarding fementation temp. I understand the idea that ambient room temperature isn’t a great measure, or that ambient temp needs to be 5-10 degrees lower than what you want to be fermenting at, since the fermentation process produces its own heat. Short of opening up the bucket and sticking a (sanitized, of course) thermometer in the bucket. How can I really tell what the actual temp of my fermentation is? Do the aquarium style stickers work on a bucket, or just carboys? And does that even really measure what’s going on inside the fementation vessel?
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What I am doing now, is I have clipped my dial thermometer to the lid of the bucket. The probe goes right down beside the* bucket, probably ¼ to ½ inches away from bucket.
Am I getting a decent measurement here? When it was colder a few weeks ago, it was reading 64F pretty constantly, now it’s warmed considerably up in Missouri, so I’m getting a reading of about 68F.
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So, with my setup and the close proximity of the probe to the fermenter, am I getting the fermentation temp? Ambient room temp? Or somewhere in the middle?
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Thanks!
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My question is, with the weather finally starting to warm up around the country, I’ve been seeing a ton of posts on here regarding fementation temp. I understand the idea that ambient room temperature isn’t a great measure, or that ambient temp needs to be 5-10 degrees lower than what you want to be fermenting at, since the fermentation process produces its own heat. Short of opening up the bucket and sticking a (sanitized, of course) thermometer in the bucket. How can I really tell what the actual temp of my fermentation is? Do the aquarium style stickers work on a bucket, or just carboys? And does that even really measure what’s going on inside the fementation vessel?
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What I am doing now, is I have clipped my dial thermometer to the lid of the bucket. The probe goes right down beside the* bucket, probably ¼ to ½ inches away from bucket.
Am I getting a decent measurement here? When it was colder a few weeks ago, it was reading 64F pretty constantly, now it’s warmed considerably up in Missouri, so I’m getting a reading of about 68F.
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So, with my setup and the close proximity of the probe to the fermenter, am I getting the fermentation temp? Ambient room temp? Or somewhere in the middle?
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Thanks!