Fermentation Chiller for ~40-50$

[Gil Breau]

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.

[Kyle]

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.

[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

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

[Dean]

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!!

[Dean]

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

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      

[Gil Breau]

LOL

Then he'd have no kitchen!