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?
