Thermometer placement

[nikkob33]

So I just made myself a keggle so I can start to brew bigger batches. I placed the thermometer about 4 in from the bottom of the keg. My question is to chill the wort I normally used my immersion chiller, however, that will only get it down to around 78 degrees. So I would ice bath my brew pot to get it down to the desired temp. My old brewpot did not have a thermometer. I am concerned that I will damage the thermometer because it is water resistant not water proof. Anyone run into this problem and if so what did you do?

 

[kristiismean]

just prechill, cool to 100 then use a prechiller. run your water through a copper, steel, whatever metal in a bucket with ice water, that goes to your immersion chiller.

 

[dpalme]

You have several options, one would be to find a bigger container for the ice bath, but you can also get a small pond pump and hook it up to your immersion chiller and pump the ice bath water through it to cool down the wort. You can recycle your water that way too and use less if you wanted, just have plenty of ice on hand.

https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=dp_bc_5?ie=UTF8&node=402303011

 

[nikkob33]

I appreciate the info

 

[dpalme]

Let us know how it goes.