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The heater element is generally located underneath the evaporator inside the freezer. When it heats up it melts the ice off the evaporator and the water runs out a small drain hole to a dish out the back or underneath the fridge to evaporate away. The condesor outside generally aids in this...

Thanks for the correction Captain. I always thought that most upright freezers have the coils throughout the shelves but happy to be corrected. I'll keep an eye out for a freezer also then.

An all fridge is you best option, something around the 200L mark (or external measurements of 550x550x1300). I'm currently searching marketplace to get a new one as my current one has given up the ghost on me. If you're not in a hurry, you should be able to get one on marketplace or gumtree etc...

Count me in please.

Have these come out yet at all? Just wondering if I missed the first lot or not. Keen to hear what peoples thoughts are in the setup.

Seeing as my brewing fridge is out of action at the moment, my cold crashing will be a bit slow going. Just using frozen milk bottles it'll probably take a couple of days at least. I'm trying to work out when to dry hop so the hops aren't soaking for too long & become too overpowering. If I cold...

Sorry I missed the first one. My current fridge is only 540x540x1500 and just squeezes into the space I have. I run a fermzilla inside it.

That Thermentor King is great little unit. So compact and sounds like it has great cooling capacity. Far too much $$$ for what I need. I'll most likely just keep searching for a fridge.

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A great bit of detail in all that. Thank you Swannie. I have considered most of what you have said already. I was merely keeping my expanation as simple as possible to see what everyone else woudl come up with. I will more than likely get another fridge but I just wanted to see if there's...

So my brew fridge has gone and died on me and due to the tight space I have it in I'm stuggling to find another fridge that's big eneough for my fermenter but small enough for the space. I'm looking into other options of chilling down my brews like the Temp Twister but was keen to hear about...

Yes definitely. Another way to save on gas is to syphon from the fermentor to the keg. It's a bit slower than using a bottle push it over but it doesn't use any gas and it stops itself once full so you don't have to hang around and watch.

Brew under pressure and you don't have to worry about waiting at all. If you set your spunding valve to the appropriate pressure that matches the brewing temperature and the CO2 volume you want then all you need to do it just chill it down, transfer it into your keg and it's ready to go.

Typical the beer i just cold crashed has hardly any sediment on the cone this time. Normally I wouldn't complain but I was going to give the vibrating thing a go. This one was a cerveza so I sholdn't expect much. I might to an IPA nextr time.

Hi everyone, I am using the fermzilla and I'd like to know if there's any tips and tricks for getting the yeast down in the collectiong chamber instead of settling on the sides of the cone? Yes the vast majority of it does drop down into the cone but I just hate seeing the pick up tube suck up...

My thought was to just get a stainless steel nut that fits tight on the tubing and screw it on so it works as a weight to keep it down.

Any further update on this one? I was thinking of having a go myself but I remember reading this thread months ago, so I thought I'd check up on it.

Hi, I picked up a sodastream cylinder from a friend of a friend and it hasn't been filled for many years. I went to fill it but it was leaking from both the pin and the base thread. I took it off the cylinder and found that the o-ring was pretty old and hard (easilty replaced) but it didnt seem...

If I was you I wouldn't bother going to a pressure fermenter unless you plan on getting CO2 as well. The advantages you'll gain will just be lost by carbing in the bottles.