Hi all,

What I'm thinking about doing is mounting a decent-to-good thermometer probe in the outlet from my MLT. I have a 30 gal blichmann pot, which has the nice brewing thermometer mounted, but I've noticed that the wort at the bottom of the pot is easily 5-10 degrees warmer than the thermometer reads (naturally, since I'm doing a direct-fire RIMS). What I'd like is a thermometer I can mount in-line, either attached to the ball valve itself or just something with QDs on both sides so I can hook it into my tubing setup.

What Kal does at the electric brewery is set up a T connector into which he screws the thermal probe. That's all well and good, but he hooks that probe into a programmable control box (which I'm not about to build right now). What I want is something that I can hook up in-line but has its own display. Ideally, I'd just find some kind of self-sealing silicone bung that I can push the probe from my thermapen into whenever I want. Seems like that sort of thing could exist.

Failing that, are there any good all-in-one thermometers that have a NPT collar on their probe, for screwing into a T junction so I can measure the temp of the flowing wort?

You could add a 1/2" tee fitting to the end of the ball valve. Then you thread a thermometer with 1/2" male threads into the side of the fitting opposite the ball valve. The third opening of the fitting is where your hose will attach.

Something similar to this pic:

Yeah, that's more or less what I want to do. What I'm looking for is help finding a good thermometer that can mount thusly. I might just move my brewmometer over to that location and get one of those plug thingies for where it's currently mounted.

Morebeer sells just what you need for that application. http://morebeer.com/view_product/18692/102228/Thermometer_3_Face_x_2%22_Probe

I have a Blichmann and drilled a hole near the top to connect a coupler and a ball valve. I use it to recirc and sparge.

Ryan at MoreBeer pointed me in the right direction with the inline thermometer with quick disconnects.

http://morebeer.com/view_product/11253//Inline_Thermometer_with_Stainless_Quick_Disconnects

I have mine on the outlet of the heat exchanger in my hot liquor tank in my HERMS (B3 calls it Analog SMART). If you are using a pump and quick disconnects, then you can move it around the brew system as needed.