gava
I do rather like beer.....
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Hello All,
Im starting to run out of space in my garage for fermenting fridges.. Since I dont have much land I can't put a shed up and we like to park our cars in the garage..
So after snooping around I want to put forward an idea.. Im not expecting much success but I thought I'd give it a bash..
First up:The Idea.
In my garage I have three fridges for brewing/other. this takes up space and I can't have a work bench. So i thought I'd see if I can do both..
Im soon to have an old keg fridge spare (when i make my new chest freezer version) and I dont care if I kill the old one..
So the drawing below (awesome visio drawing i know, at work so using the only tools I can)..
-Old Fridge with its door taken off..
-Create a work bench.
-Under the bench create two rooms.. 1 for lagers and one for ales /starters..
So the idea in my head is that I can use the lager side to ferment when doing single batches.. but if I want to do a lager and a ale at the same time using two tempmates I can take colder air from the lager side to chill my ale side and if the lager gets cold it'll get cool from the fridge same thing if I want to create a yeast starter while fermenting a brew.
My concerns are..
- Fridge motor burns out
- Tempmates fight each other
- bending down to put fermenters in - may require some type of sliding tray.
- Not able to run two heat belts or heaters off one tempmate heat power cable.
I would love to see if a bar fridge would do this because then I would get more bench space with the same fermenting space.
all feedback is welcome.. well mostly all
Im starting to run out of space in my garage for fermenting fridges.. Since I dont have much land I can't put a shed up and we like to park our cars in the garage..
So after snooping around I want to put forward an idea.. Im not expecting much success but I thought I'd give it a bash..
First up:The Idea.
In my garage I have three fridges for brewing/other. this takes up space and I can't have a work bench. So i thought I'd see if I can do both..
Im soon to have an old keg fridge spare (when i make my new chest freezer version) and I dont care if I kill the old one..
So the drawing below (awesome visio drawing i know, at work so using the only tools I can)..
-Old Fridge with its door taken off..
-Create a work bench.
-Under the bench create two rooms.. 1 for lagers and one for ales /starters..
So the idea in my head is that I can use the lager side to ferment when doing single batches.. but if I want to do a lager and a ale at the same time using two tempmates I can take colder air from the lager side to chill my ale side and if the lager gets cold it'll get cool from the fridge same thing if I want to create a yeast starter while fermenting a brew.
My concerns are..
- Fridge motor burns out
- Tempmates fight each other
- bending down to put fermenters in - may require some type of sliding tray.
- Not able to run two heat belts or heaters off one tempmate heat power cable.
I would love to see if a bar fridge would do this because then I would get more bench space with the same fermenting space.
all feedback is welcome.. well mostly all