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Offline Gil Breau

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Fermentation Chiller for ~40-50$
« on: August 19, 2011, 10:10:30 AM »
http://home.roadrunner.com/~brewbeer/chiller/chiller.PDF

Plan on crafting one of these bad boys soon.

Mind you, I'll most likely make it more sturdy and more... aesthetic by covering it in melamine.
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Offline Kyle

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Re: Fermentation Chiller for ~40-50$
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2011, 10:14:08 AM »
looks clever, personally, I'm leaning towards a used freezer with a temp controller for that purpose. I'm thinking in the long run the ease-of-use would be worth it, but it is certainly more pricy.
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Offline Gil Breau

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Re: Fermentation Chiller for ~40-50$
« Reply #2 on: August 19, 2011, 10:17:50 AM »
I'm renting out my basement apartment, otherwise I'd definitely go for the freezer.

The way we built the house, we lived in the basement for 2 years while we finished the upstairs. There's a whole kitchen + amenities down there, plus one huge room that's probably 20x20 or so. One day soon, it'll become my bar and nanobrew station :D

But for now, I need to make things compressed to my kitchen upstairs, so this'll make do for now.
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Re: Fermentation Chiller for ~40-50$
« Reply #3 on: August 19, 2011, 10:19:35 AM »
the downside to using a freezer is space, build your own and you can make it whatever shape & size you want, fit it in a closet, under the stairs, under the workbench, etc.

I'll eventually build a fermentation chamber in the garage ...right beside my DIY Brutus Rig ...LOL!!

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Re: Fermentation Chiller for ~40-50$
« Reply #4 on: August 19, 2011, 10:21:05 AM »
Quote from: "Gil Breau"
I'm renting out my basement apartment, otherwise I'd definitely go for the freezer.

The way we built the house, we lived in the basement for 2 years while we finished the upstairs. There's a whole kitchen + amenities down there, plus one huge room that's probably 20x20 or so. One day soon, it'll become my bar and nanobrew station :D

But for now, I need to make things compressed to my kitchen upstairs, so this'll make do for now.


you need to rent that out to Dave ...you'd have rental income AND your brewpub    :wavebeer:  :wavebeer:

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Re: Fermentation Chiller for ~40-50$
« Reply #5 on: August 19, 2011, 10:22:25 AM »
LOL

Then he'd have no kitchen!
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