blackstrat5
Well-Known Member
Currently, the fermentation temps that I see are just from the probe for the Johnson Controller on my chest freezer. The probe is taped to the side of my better bottles/carboys under a towel for insulation. This is so the freezer doesn't cycle too long and overshoot lowering the temp of fermentation.
I'm wondering if the actual fermentation temp doesn't get quite a bit higher than that probe is measuring. I was thinking about getting a probe/cooking thermometer and letting it hang from the stopper in the beer and keeping an eye on it that way. Or building an arduino based device to measure a probe in the beer and the ambient temperature of the freezer. (I wasn't able to find a device I was happy with that would meausre the temperatures with a waterproof probe, but I may just have not been looking hard enough).
I guess I wanted to know if anyone has done such a thing before here, or has any suggestions on what the best route might be. If I go the arduino route, it'd be a little pricey but I could log the temps through wifi/ehternet and check on it remotely if I really wanted to. On the other hand, I may find that the controller probe really is measuring the temp of fermentation rather accurately. Sny thoughts? Comments?
I'm wondering if the actual fermentation temp doesn't get quite a bit higher than that probe is measuring. I was thinking about getting a probe/cooking thermometer and letting it hang from the stopper in the beer and keeping an eye on it that way. Or building an arduino based device to measure a probe in the beer and the ambient temperature of the freezer. (I wasn't able to find a device I was happy with that would meausre the temperatures with a waterproof probe, but I may just have not been looking hard enough).
I guess I wanted to know if anyone has done such a thing before here, or has any suggestions on what the best route might be. If I go the arduino route, it'd be a little pricey but I could log the temps through wifi/ehternet and check on it remotely if I really wanted to. On the other hand, I may find that the controller probe really is measuring the temp of fermentation rather accurately. Sny thoughts? Comments?