Liquid Temperature Question

[timm747]

The liquid temperature of the bottle of water I have in my kegerator (Sanyo) is 38 degrees. However when I poured my beer and stuck the thermometer in the glass it read 42 degrees.

The warm beer in the tower didn't go into the glass that was 42 degrees, I poured that into another glass first, then once the beer cleared up I poured it into my drinking glass and the drinking glass is what I measured.

Do I want the 38 degree temperature to be the temperature in the plastic bottle of water in the kegerator, or the temperature of the beer being dispensed?

Thanks!

Tim

[Scott Zuhse]

If you poured the second beer into a different glass, the glass temperature may have effected the reading. Pour the second beer into the same glass. This should be the actual beer temperature. A bottle of water on top of a keg may be in the direct path of the evaporator fan and be colder than the beer.

A reading from a dispensed beer is always more accurate.

Scott Zuhse, Instructor Micro Matic Dispense Institute

[timm747]

Thanks Scott. I'll try that and work the temp using that method. That might be why things aren't going that great with the kegerator, it might still be too warm in there!