superjunior

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just did a 20 gallon batch in the garage Sunday. Got lucky when I bought this house (commercial property) came with a 30x40 ft heated garage, complete with ceiling vent/fan that sucks the fumes right out. ran a hose from basement sink to the shop for the wort chiller. perfect brew day with temps in the teens

lstewartff

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Thats awesome I wish I had something like that.

djt17

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I would be careful with frying a turkey in the garage; my bro-in-law almost burned his down. Oil spilled onto the burner; there are still burn marks on the ceiling from the flames. Dang fire extinguisher ruined the trukey.

BoisePorter

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The condensation was my worry also this past weekend. I opted to brew outside in the light rain/snow. I didn't want all of the steam to collect on my drywall ceiling and rot it or at least mold/mildew it.

Baron von BeeGee

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I brew/work in my garage with the door about halfway up in the winter, sometimes running a propane construction heater, and so far nothw.elk;a,;acxxcjl;af

gungadin

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I brew outside in my detached uninsulated garage. First, I run a kerosene torpedo heater (construction, as Baron calls it) for about 30 minutes to take the chill out of it, but once the HLT and BK burners turn on the kero heater isn't really needed... 200k btu of propane burner does a good job as a heater, too.

For ventilation, I have 20 feet of ridge vent and soffit vents and keep two windows (opposite sides of the garage, to get some cross) open a couple of inches. Digital CO/Gas leak detector never goes above zero, and I have a backup CO (non-digital, just a noisemaker... yes, I'm paranoid) that has never gone off either.

I prefer 70 and low humidity over the cold, but I prefer the cold over 95 and humid any day!

edit: CO is nothing to screw around with, it will make for an unpleasant day... but I think people (myself included) tend to be a little overly cautious. 20 years ago most of us would have done this in a garage without a second thought... nobody had a CO detector in their house. Now we're just conditioned to be afraid of CO, and that's a good thing.

92greenyj

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you'll be fine. I set my system up just inside the garage door when I brew. never had a problem

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BierMuncher

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I brewed in my garage a long time before I set up my indoor brewshop.

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superjunior

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here's a short vid of sunday brewing in my garage - just click on the pic

NickN72

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I just finished doing 2-5 gallon batches in my garage today. No doors or windows open, just normal garage roof vents. I had my CO detector sitting a few feet from the burner and it never moved off 0. I know that CO is nothing to mess with (my Dad's cousin died from CO in a corn processing facility), but I think that we are more worried about it than we have to be.