Fermenter heaters?

[IanRMartin]

Thanks Chaps,

Heater and digital thermometer all sorted now B)

Ian

[PieOPah]

QUOTE (andy @ Jun 27 2006, 04:04 PM) Previously on yeastCam...






Oh My God...

That is some very scary stuff. I've never seen yeast act like that. I must ay thought that he animation - the krausen looks very clean. Like a Mr Whippy

[mysterio]

That second animation is making me nauseous...

I too have a tray heater but I never use it any more. I find room temperature at ~18C plus a two or three degrees from primary fermentation is perfect for an ale.

However I desperately need a thermo. I keep breaking glass ones in my mash tun and critical moments :blink:

[Andy]

QUOTE (mysterio @ Jun 28 2006, 12:58 PM) That second animation is making me nauseous...
Look into the krausen, look into the krausen, the krausen, the krausen, not around the krausen, don't look around the krausen, look into the krausen, you're under

[PieOPah]

What are you actually brewing to give such activity (I guess that the image is time lapse) I have never seen anything like it!

I imagine it is a huge gravity beer?

[Andy]

QUOTE (PieOPah @ Jun 28 2006, 02:13 PM) What are you actually brewing to give such activity (I guess that the image is time lapse) I have never seen anything like it!

I imagine it is a huge gravity beer?
Just a normal ale, 4.5% ABV ish.

The magic's in the yeast! I get fresh, live liquid yeast from my local brewery. Goes like a rocket


If it wasn't time lapse then I'd be running out of the front door sharpish

[tribs]

QUOTE (Daft as a Brush @ Jun 28 2006, 01:13 PM)Hands up anyone who has ever thought in the winter "hmmmm, it feels a bit chilly in here but I wont turn the thermostat up because my fermenting beer may get too warm"






just me then
  :rolleyes: 
I've got thermostatic radiators, so I just keep the fermenting room (the wife calls it the utility room) at a nice low setting.

I did keep the heating on constantly last winter to prevent the temp dropping at night/while at work

[tribs]

Do you use these type of digital thermometers for mash temps too?

On the H&G website it says you can't leave the sensor in the mash tun. Has anyone tried it?

I'm thinking of ordering one. Presumably you get a reading much faster then with a floating spirit thermo.

[Andy]

QUOTE (Daft as a Brush @ Jun 30 2006, 09:52 AM)Just tried using my digital thermometer like the ones above and it now reads over 30 deg c out. This is the second one I've had trouble with, I sent the first one back thinking it was a one off
Did you find this out my immersing in boiling water or an ice bath ?


Or via some other method ->

:blink: :ph34r:

[IanRMartin]

QUOTE (andy @ Jun 30 2006, 10:29 AM)
Or via some other method ->

PMSL

[tribs]

QUOTE (Daft as a Brush @ Jun 30 2006, 10:18 AM)I usualy leave the sensor in the mash tun, now it's in the bin-it's back to spirit thermometers for me <_<
Maybe that is why it has bust

[eskimobob]

Well I've left my digital LCD thermometer in the fermenting brew successfully during a number of brews. I don't use it during the mash as the maximum temp range is 70C - instead I use a http://www.drdaq.co.uk data logger with an external temperature sensor (I used to work for Pico). It does mean I have a laptop nearby while brewing but then I am usually posting or reading something here as I go along anyway...

You might need to check the batteries in your digital thermometer DaaB as if they are getting low, the readings may well go a bit wacky before the LCD dims significantly.

[hairytoes]

joder mi chacho!!!! I'm sheetting meself at that monster yeast heid!!! Memories of crap B movies come flooding back. :blink:

As a lot of you guys have a prob wif digi thermometers & I'm just about to buy one (also seen the ones posted here) is it a good call to just use a glass mercury job & a sticky on one for the fermentation stage. <_<

can't get over that freaking yeast!!!

[Road Runner]

QUOTE (hairytoes @ Jul 31 2006, 09:29 PM) is it a good call to just use a glass mercury job & a sticky on one for the fermentation stage. <_<
That's exactly what I use. I haven't gone down the digi thermometer route.

I use a glass one for the mash, sparge, boil & cooling stage & use cheap sticky on Liquid Crystal ones on my fermenter buckets. As long as you remember to compensate for the sticky on ones being a couple of degrees out, you'll be fine.

I've not yet had a problem with inaccurate readings, except as I say, the 2 degrees compensation on liquid crystal ones.

[hairytoes]

nice one RR, I thought that would be a good way to start off - do you have 1 thermometer for each stage or just reuse the same one after cleaning & sterilising it each time??