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Yeah, that makes sense. Will definitely give that a try next time.

You are saying strapping the probe to the outside of the fermentation vessel is more suitable than placing it in a thermowell at the centre of the vessel or measuring the ambient temp of the chamber?

Just hanging into the freezer to get the ambient temp

Yep, I typically put the probe into a thermowell right in the centre of the beer. I bottled today after setting the temp controller to around 2.5 degrees C for about three weeks, and kept the probe out of the fermenter altogether to see if that helped prevent any freezing, but as it turned out...

In my case I have a thermoprobe so the probe is right in the centre of the beer. I don't know what went wrong, but my controller will vary a degree (celsius) or two before adjusting. I figure the centre of the beer was warmer than the outside, due to it sitting directly on the freezer floor...

Yeah, I might do a test bottle while it's in its lagering state and see if that does anything. Comforting to know it sounds like the yeast probably survived well enough for bottle conditioning.

I have a kolsch 'lagering' at what I thought was a fairly safe temperature setting to avoid freezing, but something has gone wrong. I have a probe in the centre of the wort, and I guess with the freezer, the bottom and tops are much colder than my 2 degrees C in the middle, so I've noticed a...

Hey Bobby, I'm thinking about setting up my brew kettle with your whirlpool and recirculation setup. Is the position for the whirlpool fitting important? I know on a lot of kettles it's placed higher up than the draining fitting, but it looks like on yours they're at the same vertical position.