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Turned my keezer into a fermentation chamber as well and was surprised my some black mold on the lid and on the sides of the bucket. Definitely going to put in a fan in the keezer now.

I know it not efficient, but mine is for more for minor temperature stability. If the chamber is jammed with mass, the temperatures should be fairly stable. I will not be crashing in this or lagering. Lets call it using a personal mini fridge as Ale only primary fermentation chamber with a...

My setup is a garden hose, through a whole house water purifier, through 50 feet of 1/4 copper tubing on top of a banjo burner, to some silcone tubing that fits into the barb of the mash tun or HLT. My rig is simple 3 tier gravity system.

Currently I batch sparge, but my flash boiler it pretty hard to dial in. The higher the temp the harder to dial in and the slower the water rate or higher the propane use. There is little adjustment or no adjustment from 160F to steam. When I missed my mash in temp by 4F, the flash boiler...

Think I need something like this for the AC to DC conversion to power the switch. Will have dig up a multimeter and figure what the amperage is on the switch.

Its pretty close, the one project with the mini fridge is more like I am look at. The one built under a cabinet with the fridge door open.

Thanks for the info, after a search on peltier coolers on the forum, peltier coolers not look too promising as supper effective method. But with in a small temperature range it should allow for a dial in temp for ales with out too much electricity.

I know its an old thread, but I stumbled upon steam mash heating when I missed my temps with my flash boiler. Made it into a steam boiler and used the braid as the steam inlet. Wanting to take this one step forward however for sparging. Do you have to fly sparge (heat water and sparge) or...

Crap, thinking about it probably runs on DC since the AC adapter has two piece brick attached to it. Might need some help taking the AC hot lines from the aquarium controller to control the assumed DC three way mini fridge switch.

My basement is pretty steady in temps 67 t0 72 year round. However this summer is very hot and now its 75 or 76. I temporally made my soon to be keezer into a fermentation chamber. But this can not last forever. So I started looking into fermentation chambers. Did some searching and did not...

I just wired up my keezer as temporary fermentation chiller using old hand made extension cord. The steady basement temp of 68 to 72 is now 76. I bought the relay but have not wired it in. The main wire I am using is probably older than me. Not much into analog, and even less into AC...

Question on wiring from wiring diagram with the fan. If I use an AC fan from an old bath room fan, would there still be a need for the 125 Relay?

Thought I was doing a smash cascade today, but the freezer said crystal instead. My recipe 18# 2 row 2# 2 row toasted for 30 minutes at 275 7 oz Crystall in hop juice I did hop juice, so i took my first running and brought it inside and boiled it. The I added the 7 oz crystal and...

My neighbor who says everything tastes like guiness, said this batch tastes like ashes.

Any thoughts on when to use gelatin? Do in now or wait now n months? For a second running how long should you wait in between? The yeast washing looks and smells pretty good. I think there was too much fine husk particles in the milling. The initial wash trub was fine dark particles, now...