So I did a search and couldn't come up with much of anything specific to what I am thinking of doing.
I brew and ferment in my garage, and that means that for the majority of the year the ambient temp is rarely above 70 degrees from now till about late May. So my problem the majority of the time is keeping by fermenting beer warm rather than keeping it cool. On top of this the majority of what I brew is ales.
Being a cheap bastard, and not wanting to take up too much valuable real estate for a fridge for fermenting I am thinking of this:
Submerse my fermeting beer in a large tub filled with water and using an aquarium pump and aquarium heater to maintain temp of the surrounding water. The pump would circulate the water enough to keep the temp even, and the heater would cycle on and off to hold the temp at the set point.
Does this sound reasonable? Anyone else out there try this?
I brew and ferment in my garage, and that means that for the majority of the year the ambient temp is rarely above 70 degrees from now till about late May. So my problem the majority of the time is keeping by fermenting beer warm rather than keeping it cool. On top of this the majority of what I brew is ales.
Being a cheap bastard, and not wanting to take up too much valuable real estate for a fridge for fermenting I am thinking of this:
Submerse my fermeting beer in a large tub filled with water and using an aquarium pump and aquarium heater to maintain temp of the surrounding water. The pump would circulate the water enough to keep the temp even, and the heater would cycle on and off to hold the temp at the set point.
Does this sound reasonable? Anyone else out there try this?