Any and all ideas, advice, plans, criticisim, etc would be greatly appreciated.
I'm renting a poorly insulated house in central texas and now have a Plastic conical fermenter. I Don't have room for another fridge to put the conical in to control temps, but I have room near the keggerator and don't mind punching some holes in the freezer to do this.
Cost is a big part of this, also simplicity. Lets go as cheap and easy as possible. I've seen some really involved systems and would rather just go back to Carboy in the rubbermaid with water/wet T-shirt for the summer months.
I have the spare coils and plenty of hoses laying around.
An aquarium pump would be my first idea but I don't know if they could handle the frozen liquid glycol.
From reading other similar minded posts I know I would have to insulate the lines.
I think I need to create a way to bleed all the air out of the system or the pump would cavitate. Yes/no?
Ambient Temp in the house when we are gone is around 85 F. If we try to lower that our Electric bill goes upwards of $300 and the wife really doesn't dig that. I would like to keep it ale temps only. I have a Corny for Lagers that fits inside the keggerator.
Thanks for any help.
I'm renting a poorly insulated house in central texas and now have a Plastic conical fermenter. I Don't have room for another fridge to put the conical in to control temps, but I have room near the keggerator and don't mind punching some holes in the freezer to do this.
Cost is a big part of this, also simplicity. Lets go as cheap and easy as possible. I've seen some really involved systems and would rather just go back to Carboy in the rubbermaid with water/wet T-shirt for the summer months.
I have the spare coils and plenty of hoses laying around.
An aquarium pump would be my first idea but I don't know if they could handle the frozen liquid glycol.
From reading other similar minded posts I know I would have to insulate the lines.
I think I need to create a way to bleed all the air out of the system or the pump would cavitate. Yes/no?
Ambient Temp in the house when we are gone is around 85 F. If we try to lower that our Electric bill goes upwards of $300 and the wife really doesn't dig that. I would like to keep it ale temps only. I have a Corny for Lagers that fits inside the keggerator.
Thanks for any help.