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So I've been home brewing ales and I'd like to do a pilser but this requires holding the fermenter temperature at around 10C. Anyone homebrew with some sort of cheap cooling set up? The strategies I've found so far are as follows: 1. Buy a chest freezer/fridge and hook it up to a thermostat. 2. Put it in a foam box with two chambers, one for the fermenter and one for a pile of ice, the chambers are connected by a fan hooked up to a thermostat on the fermenter side (evaporative cooling). 3. Put it in a plastic tub and throw ice in to it periodically. I don't want to spend $300 to save $20 on beer. I was thinking the cheapest method might be to frame a chest freezer sized box with scrap wood, add insulating foam walls to form two chambers, then put a bucket of ice and water in the one chamber and the fermenter in a second bucket of water in the other chamber. Move the water between chambers as needed using a pond water pump hooked up to a thermostat. cowofwar fucked around with this message at 03:04 on Apr 12, 2016 |
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# ? May 3, 2024 07:46 |
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If you don't pay for utilities, why not run a wort chiller for a week?
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# ? Apr 13, 2016 18:08 |
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I went with option #1. $40 Craigslist freezer and $30 of components from Amazon and I was done. If you're near a college town, head on down to the dorms area about move-out time and there will be mini-fridges and stuff just sitting on/by the trash, or sale for super-cheap.
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# ? Apr 14, 2016 11:29 |