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Originally Posted by YooperBrew
It really depends on your climate, too, I think. Right now my house is 62 degrees- I have my fermenter in the room I'm in since it's the warmest room in the house. My basement is at 48. So, I can do ales or lagers. (Then lager in the fridge, or the cooler set up). My laundry room is 58 degrees- I just made a steam beer. It's limiting sometimes, not having a fermentation chamber, but it's definitely not needed for me. In the summer, my basement never gets above 65 degrees. But there are times when I've needed that cooler set up- sometimes to use ice to cool the fermentation in an unusual heat wave, but just as often I put an aquarium heater in it to bring the temperature UP!
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I agree.
To the OP, we live in a very moderate climate compared to many HBTers. Some kind of insulating vessel for your fermenter should be enough to avoid the wild swings in air temperatures or unusually high, ale-unfriendly temps in the summer.
I'm not dismissing the freezer/temp controller idea at all; I looked for something simpler and that would take up less room at this stage. One day, when a decent house in Vancouver isn't a million dollars or I will the 649, I might have the room to improve my set-up. A man can dream, can't he.
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