Dunkelman
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Hi all,
I'm brand new home brewing; I just bought my equipment and materials from a LHBS last week, and am almost ready to transfer the concoction from the bucket fermenter to the carboy fermenter. The mix that came with the kit was a Imperial Stout syrup, so it was pretty basic.
My goal, however, is to graduate to lagers and all grain and to come up with my own dunkel recipe.
Anyway, long story short, I've done a lot of reading and know that with lagers you have to ferment at lower tempuraturs, like 55 degrees or so. Would a normal refridgerator be adequate? I've read of people buying freezers and using a Johnson Controls device to regulate the tempurature, but to me it would seem a proper fridge would be more versatile. Is there a reason why I wouldn't want to use a fridge to regulate the fermentation tempurature?
Thanks all!
I'm brand new home brewing; I just bought my equipment and materials from a LHBS last week, and am almost ready to transfer the concoction from the bucket fermenter to the carboy fermenter. The mix that came with the kit was a Imperial Stout syrup, so it was pretty basic.
My goal, however, is to graduate to lagers and all grain and to come up with my own dunkel recipe.
Anyway, long story short, I've done a lot of reading and know that with lagers you have to ferment at lower tempuraturs, like 55 degrees or so. Would a normal refridgerator be adequate? I've read of people buying freezers and using a Johnson Controls device to regulate the tempurature, but to me it would seem a proper fridge would be more versatile. Is there a reason why I wouldn't want to use a fridge to regulate the fermentation tempurature?
Thanks all!