mash temp location

[jtrainer]

Sorry but I've been drinking all night...

I recently built a new boiler and added some couplings to the mash tun while at it... I added a half couling to the mash tun near the dip tube coupling. Using a blichman eng thermo for the first time... Normally I used a wlalymart digital thermo stuck in the top of the mash.

I always thought my beers were thicker than I wanted no matter how close to 147 I dared to get.

OK so today I racked the first fermenter to keg and for some unknown reason I bothered to measure the FG. I often skip this as I primary 2-4 weeks normally. I read 1.008 and expected 1.013. It's a simple APA I do and I normally stop about 1.013 anyhow.

I'm wondering if measuring from the top only is reason to be off or perhaps I have to recheck both probes but they both were tested.

I just can't figure out why my FG is so much lower than normal for the same recipe...

 

[944play]

I always thought my beers were thicker than I wanted no matter how close to 147 I dared to get.

This is a pretty big hint... I'm going to guess that the new thermometer is much more accurate. Did you check them against each other at mash temps?

Lost Abbey Devotion would be effing amazing if it didn't have this plasticizer flavor.:cross::cross:

 

[jtrainer]

That's probably right these are probably much more accurate than my old probes. One is 6 yrs old.

When I picked up the new probes I did the crushed ice /water and they all read 32.... When introducing them to a boil... they were all fine. In repeating this today I see the digital probe wouldn't go above 173 for 10 minutes but the bi-metal probe was smooth.

So here I've been brewing with a possible bad thermo...

Let the good times roll...

I'm over it I just have some drier beer that I expected...