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cudaar: Awesome that you installed an electrical outlet in there

Thanks everyone for the advice. I ended up going with a freezer (http://www.sears.com/shc/s/p_10153_12605_04616342000P?vName=Appliances), only because the only reasonably-priced standing fridge of the size I would want had fairly bad reviews.

It's Houston, TX (changing profile now)

Yeah, the chest freezers at Sears are cheaper per cubic foot, but I'm convinced that the vertical space will be that much more useful than the horizontal space, that it'll even out in the end.

Question for the warm-climate brewers: Is there any reason why I shouldn't buy and use a standing refrigerator (with external thermostat) -- as opposed to a chest freezer -- for use as a temperature-controlled fermenting chamber? I am attracted to the fridge (a model without a freezer) because...

Thanks all for the advice. I might end up going with a freestanding chamber and AC window unit anyway, but it sounds like this is not a universal problem, and that I would also be safe trying another freezer.

Great -- thank you for the information and for the photos -- will post how it works out

hat is a sweet design. What is the ambient temperature in the room? Does anyone know how much of a temperature differential a smallish window unit can support? It can be upwards of 95F in my garage in the summer -- would I be able to maintain ale fermenting temperatures in a similar setup?

Yes, definitely. But what about the freezer not running for a day, or a week, or a month? Would that cause problems?

Has anyone had their chestfreezer-turned-fermenting chamber fail on them? My freezer failed recently. Had the repair guy out this morning, and he diagnosed a tubing leak inside the unit -- basically unfixable. He said that typically once you turn a chest freezer on, you don't want to turn...