PistolPatch
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When not writing silly posts here or working myself to death, I have recently been putting some serious thought into how to manage space restrictions in my one bedroom apartment and, now that Ill be doing AG brews as well, water wastage. I would be extremely grateful if anyone could let me know if my brain, in this one area at least, is functioning correctly.
Dealing With Space Limitations
I have a huge shower in my one bedroom apartment (strange eh?) and seeing as I dont seem to be having any luck recently in tricking members of the opposite sex in joining me there, I was thinking I could use the shower area to not only do my cleaning etc., but also store my brewing equipment.
To do this I am envisaging using a plastic container like a 44 gallon drum with a sealable lid large enough so that a fermenter or a keg will fit fully inside the the container. I would fill this with about 200litres of no rinse sanitizer which hopefully I could re-use time and time again. (Not too sure on this).
Such a container would easily allow me to fully submerse all my brewing equipment, even my racking cane which would be great! Smaller items could be suspended in something like a grain bag.
During the week, I could just leave all my equipment in the drum of no rinse sanitizer at the other end of my shower. Maybe I could even store my S/S pots in there???
Saving Water
The recent, no chiller, post also started me thinking. As far as I can tell, I think I will have to use an immersion chiller given my physical and currently, mental conditions! LOL. Seriously though, as I have a pond pump, I was hoping that I could re-circulate the no rinse solution from the drum to cool my brew.
I know I briefly mentioned this idea in the no chiller, post but it was probably a little off topic for there.
I am thinking the above would have many advantages including the only water wastage being that used in actual cleaning.
Could you please give some feedback as to if this idea is OK to do until I can find a living thing to put in my shower?
If so, three questions I immediately have are
1. Can I maintain the correct no-rinse strength from week to week? Maybe I can use some sort of chemical test?
2. Can I leave S/S permanently in an iodine solution or any other sort of no-rinse solution?
3. Lets say I have a 200litre drum, any idea on what this amount of water at a starting temp of about 26 degrees would cool the brew too? (I cannot put a brew in my fridge.) At a huge guess, Id imagine that the brew would get down to about 35 degrees. Is there a quick electrical way of cooling the brew the last 15 degrees or so?
Many thanks,
PP
P.S. Im going back to bed again(!) but am hoping that later today Ill check here and find that this idea may actually have some good points. Ill be wrapped if it does.
Dealing With Space Limitations
I have a huge shower in my one bedroom apartment (strange eh?) and seeing as I dont seem to be having any luck recently in tricking members of the opposite sex in joining me there, I was thinking I could use the shower area to not only do my cleaning etc., but also store my brewing equipment.
To do this I am envisaging using a plastic container like a 44 gallon drum with a sealable lid large enough so that a fermenter or a keg will fit fully inside the the container. I would fill this with about 200litres of no rinse sanitizer which hopefully I could re-use time and time again. (Not too sure on this).
Such a container would easily allow me to fully submerse all my brewing equipment, even my racking cane which would be great! Smaller items could be suspended in something like a grain bag.
During the week, I could just leave all my equipment in the drum of no rinse sanitizer at the other end of my shower. Maybe I could even store my S/S pots in there???
Saving Water
The recent, no chiller, post also started me thinking. As far as I can tell, I think I will have to use an immersion chiller given my physical and currently, mental conditions! LOL. Seriously though, as I have a pond pump, I was hoping that I could re-circulate the no rinse solution from the drum to cool my brew.
I know I briefly mentioned this idea in the no chiller, post but it was probably a little off topic for there.
I am thinking the above would have many advantages including the only water wastage being that used in actual cleaning.
Could you please give some feedback as to if this idea is OK to do until I can find a living thing to put in my shower?
If so, three questions I immediately have are
1. Can I maintain the correct no-rinse strength from week to week? Maybe I can use some sort of chemical test?
2. Can I leave S/S permanently in an iodine solution or any other sort of no-rinse solution?
3. Lets say I have a 200litre drum, any idea on what this amount of water at a starting temp of about 26 degrees would cool the brew too? (I cannot put a brew in my fridge.) At a huge guess, Id imagine that the brew would get down to about 35 degrees. Is there a quick electrical way of cooling the brew the last 15 degrees or so?
Many thanks,
PP
P.S. Im going back to bed again(!) but am hoping that later today Ill check here and find that this idea may actually have some good points. Ill be wrapped if it does.