Wondering what you all do if anything about temperature stratification before active fermentation starts. Once fermentation is going strong, everything stays pretty good and mixed around. I hadn’t noticed stratification to the level I’ve seen until my current batch.
I recently bought a new tilt hydrometer pro. Out of the box, I thought the temp reading was wrong on it. I didn’t care too much because I don’t use it for temp readings. The SG readings were spot on.
I also use a Ssbrewtech 14g unitank. My FTSS controller was set to 68 degrees and read perfectly 68 degrees upon pitching yeast. It varies in that 1 degree range between 67-68.
Looking back at my tilt though, it read as high as 79 degrees. I really didn’t trust it, but that was before fermentation really started. Looking at the graph, as soon as actually vigorous fermentation has kicked off, both my tilt and ftss agree exactly on what the temp is and has continued to agree.
So it makes sense that the tilt reading from the top would read higher than the ftss reading from the middle, but 10-11 degrees higher is surprising.
I recently bought a new tilt hydrometer pro. Out of the box, I thought the temp reading was wrong on it. I didn’t care too much because I don’t use it for temp readings. The SG readings were spot on.
I also use a Ssbrewtech 14g unitank. My FTSS controller was set to 68 degrees and read perfectly 68 degrees upon pitching yeast. It varies in that 1 degree range between 67-68.
Looking back at my tilt though, it read as high as 79 degrees. I really didn’t trust it, but that was before fermentation really started. Looking at the graph, as soon as actually vigorous fermentation has kicked off, both my tilt and ftss agree exactly on what the temp is and has continued to agree.
So it makes sense that the tilt reading from the top would read higher than the ftss reading from the middle, but 10-11 degrees higher is surprising.