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Man this is a staple in our kegerator this time of year. Prost!

Brewing this again this weekend. It's been a summer staple in my keezer for several years now.

I used braukaiser's hefe recipe this year for my summer wheat and it was a banana bomb fermented at 64-65. Prior to that I had be using EdWort's recipe and it was alot more balanced.

Best thing I ever did regarding improving my beer quality was building a fermetation chamber. Cost me a total of $75 or so (with a free chest freezer). - CL freezer (<$100 if you shop around, mine was free from a buddy) - Aquarium Temperature Controller - The EBay thing that has the huge...

That's true, but I'm mostly concerned about two things: - The accuracy of the temperature setpoint vs. the actual temperature of the kegs. - The duty cycle of the compressor The comment about line temperatures is true, but I haven't finalized my line/faucet installation yet. I'm trying to...

Hooked up my DMM once I got home and started data logging. I taped the probe halfway down one keg on the opposite side from the fan. Setpoint on the temperature controller is 40F. The readout on my DMM, attached to the keg, was 40.2F (after stabilizing out from the heat from my hand). I'm...

Thanks again! You've got me curious. I've got a DMM with a temperature probe and data logging abilities. I'll set that up tonight and attach the probe to a keg to see how well the control is working.

Bob, Thanks for the tips. - I plan on "fine tuning" my temperature, but as of right now the keezer has been operational for ~20 hours with 4 kegs that were already cold. I'm going to wait until this weekend to tune once I'm comfortable that everything has settled out. - I am using a 2.5'...

Hey all After picking up a used chest freezer for next to nothing on CL, I used the 4th to build out my keezer. It went off like a charm. I want to expressly thank the folks on this site who have posted their pics and ideas regarding keezers as it made the process of building mine MUCH...

oh if you only lived closer.... I have 5-6 pin locks I'd LOVE to trade for ball locks.

Yep, I use the EBay aquarium controller and have a 10-minute "short cycle" delay. Also kept ALOT of wood blocks, etc in freezer to keep the thermal mass as high as possible to avoid short cycles. Freezer may have cycled once every couple hours at most. Freezer was 20+ years old. Its time...

Sunday - brewed 10G of braukaiser's Helles recipe, placed in my fermentation chamber made from a large chest freezer. Monday-Wednesday - chugging happily away at 8C. Today - Leaving for work, checked chamber as I normally do - 10.8C. WTF? Controller was calling for cooling but freezer...

Add me to the bandwagon here. I chill as far as I can with an immersion chiller, then place the fermenter(s) in my ferm chamber set to 7C. Once the wort has cooled to 7C, I pitch then adjust the setpoint to 8C and unplug the heater so that the wort comes to temp naturally. Seems to work for...

Thanks for the feedback. I kinda figured that it wasn't a good idea, but I couldn't find info one way or the other. Now all that remains is to convince the CFO that I need a multi-corny lagering keezer. That ought to be easy, right? (rolls eyes)

I have a dumb question for which I can't find the answer. Due to not having enough space to cold lager several cornies, I wonder if I could use my fermentation chamber, set to 46-48F to mature lagers in cornies while I ferment new ones. What would be the effects of lagering 1.050-1.060...

Well said.

Wow. I need to stumble on something like that around here.

I would want to know where the CL-poster is getting the kegs and just cut out the middle man.

Man, I don't check HBT all day yesterday and I miss out on some sweet deals! PM Sent.

EdWort's recipe is a great place to start, for sure.