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09-23-2008, 11:52 PM
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Beer, not rocket science
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Corrales, New Mexico
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Temperature Controlled Fermentation!
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Here is a pretty good image that shows you what I have been up to. It is my jacketed fermenter and a glycol chiller made out of a chest freezer. The Ranco Digital Controllers regulate a circulation pump and the freezer. It works really well.
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09-23-2008, 11:54 PM
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We get it, you hate BMC.
Join Date: Apr 2008
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what...the...
oh oh oh I get it. For a second I thought the beer was in the freezer.
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09-23-2008, 11:58 PM
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Beer, not rocket science
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Glycol in the freezer, beer in the fermenter.
Here is another image:
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09-24-2008, 12:02 AM
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Conqueroo Brew
Join Date: May 2007
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Couldn't you just put the fermenter in a water bath and pull an old t-shirt over it?? 
Impressive Brewpastor, very impressive! You high-end homebrewers never cease to amaze me. |
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09-24-2008, 12:03 AM
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Location: Georgia
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I dream of glycol jackets.
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09-24-2008, 12:05 AM
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Swing the BIG hammer
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Minnesota
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BP... you are just a plain old bad man! That's freaking awesome! what did the jacketed conical run you?
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Where's my beer. I know I left it around here somewhere.....
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09-24-2008, 12:05 AM
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Beer, not rocket science
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BlindLemonLars
Couldn't you just put the fermenter in a water bath and pull an old t-shirt over it??
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Stop being reasonable.
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09-24-2008, 12:13 AM
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Killer of Hydrometers...
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Ala` "Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"
"I think I just filled the cup."
Nice work... My homemade fermetation chamber (in the works) seems pale in comparison...
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Non-Alcoholic beer is like going down on your cousin, it might taste the same but it just ain’t right!
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09-24-2008, 12:13 AM
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Beer, not rocket science
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Corrales, New Mexico
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Seabee John
what did the jacketed conical run you?
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It is made out of two different hoppers. I got most of it for nothing or close to it, but I am guessing if you had to buy all of this you would be looking at a bit under a grand.
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09-24-2008, 03:52 AM
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Wait... how does the glycol circulate around the conical? I see the tubes going to the bottom but where does it go from there?
Really you could have a whole series of fermenters running all in parallel off of the same chiller. You wouldn't even need a conical as you could use the old bucket within a cooler trick. Just be sure not to poison your beer.
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