Fermentation Temps

[bja]

Thankfully I never said that.

Whether intentionally or not, you are implying that here:

In that small, temp. controlled space, it's odd that you believe the 65 F air conditioned unit with a powerful cooling fan (which activates every couple minutes) is incapable of nonstop temp. regulation. Regulation which can penetrate wort through a carboy... which in your opinion must be always be several degrees higher during active fermentation, thus rendering the chest cooler completely useless if not also set several degrees lower than desired fermentation temperature.

But let's go back to what you're wrong on... A 5-10 F increase of 5 gallons of liquid in a temperature controlled cooler does not happen immediately.

I never said anything like that, but it does happen gradually.

 

[meadmazer]

Originally Posted by meadmazer

.... fermentation temp will be much more accurate if the temp probe is in the beer as opposed to the ambient temp. ....

Not sure what you mean, since this statement doesn't actually make any sense. Say you have a t'stat with 1F differential. You can put the probe in the beer, and you'll always get swings of 1F in the actual beer temp. OTOH, you could leave the probe in the air, and you'll see less than 1F swings in the beer temp due to the thermal capacitance. But here, you're no longer measuring beer temp, but rather air temp, so you have to monitor beer temp then and set the t'stat lower than desired beer temp.

So the issue is not "accuracy" but rather how much temperature swings or hassle you're willing to accept.

Ya I see I didnt make sense there. Post has been edited.

 

[Piratwolf]

This thread is hilarious for about 1000 reasons, only one of which is that folks were screaming thermodynamics yet it took to page 4 before someone chimed in with placement of the probe against the fermenter.

My quid's on Bob, by the way.