Hey guys, I haven't bought yet all the equipment for my new adventure of homebrewing and before doing so I would like to be sure my place can host this.
First of all I don't live in a house, I live in a condo, which has no backyards. So it's impossible for me to use gas tanks to brew since it's illegal do it inside. I know brewing kettles this way is better since you have a better control of the temperature, but all I have in my disposal is an electrical oven like this one. I know ovens are what's mostly used in homebrewing and it would be more thank ok to brew with it, but I wonder if there would be some other options available for me to better calibrate the temperature.
Also, my condo is rather small, so there aren't much room to let the beer fermenting. Tho, I have a basement (which is like 4 feet tall) and it's empty there, other than the water pipelines. I think it would be a great place to put the carboys or kegs. My only concern (other than moving the fermentation from upstairs to downstairs) is the temperature. I have no idea how it is since I never go. I would like a device down there to measure the temperature and see if there are lots of variation during day and night. Smart asses would tell me to drop a thermometer, but this way I would have to stand right by 24/24 to get measurements. I would need some high tech device that would take hourly measurements and note it for me, does it even exist?
If the basement's not suitable for the fermentation, I would need to keep it upstairs, in my dinning room. The way my condo's made is like a very long corridor with all the rooms (bedrooms and bathroom aside), including living room, dinning room and kitchen. Not gonna lie, it wouldn't be really good looking, tho it might impress the buddies and the ladies and would eat lotta space. How much space does the whole kit usually take in a room?
Thanks for answering me!
First of all I don't live in a house, I live in a condo, which has no backyards. So it's impossible for me to use gas tanks to brew since it's illegal do it inside. I know brewing kettles this way is better since you have a better control of the temperature, but all I have in my disposal is an electrical oven like this one. I know ovens are what's mostly used in homebrewing and it would be more thank ok to brew with it, but I wonder if there would be some other options available for me to better calibrate the temperature.
Also, my condo is rather small, so there aren't much room to let the beer fermenting. Tho, I have a basement (which is like 4 feet tall) and it's empty there, other than the water pipelines. I think it would be a great place to put the carboys or kegs. My only concern (other than moving the fermentation from upstairs to downstairs) is the temperature. I have no idea how it is since I never go. I would like a device down there to measure the temperature and see if there are lots of variation during day and night. Smart asses would tell me to drop a thermometer, but this way I would have to stand right by 24/24 to get measurements. I would need some high tech device that would take hourly measurements and note it for me, does it even exist?
If the basement's not suitable for the fermentation, I would need to keep it upstairs, in my dinning room. The way my condo's made is like a very long corridor with all the rooms (bedrooms and bathroom aside), including living room, dinning room and kitchen. Not gonna lie, it wouldn't be really good looking, tho it might impress the buddies and the ladies and would eat lotta space. How much space does the whole kit usually take in a room?
Thanks for answering me!
