Monitoring Lager Temps

[wobdee]

How low do you go and where do you place your temp control probe?

After I ferment my lagers in a separate fridge I transfer to keg and place into another fridge with my STC1000 set at 34° and the probe set in a 12 oz bottle of water. I'm not sure if this is best or not? Maybe its better to tape the probe to the side of a keg or just monitor the actual temp inside the fridge? What do you do? Thanks.

 

[BlueHouseBrewhaus]

You could actually just put it in a fridge and leave the probe dangling. If the ambient temp remains at 34, the beer will stabilize at that temp, too. Once you're lagering, you don't have to worry about the fermentation temp of the beer since fermentation is pretty much done.