After reading posts by many of you stating that temperature is one of the main things to control when brewing, I've decided to upgrade to the next level.
I bought a chest freezer from another brewer who has moved. It came with a Penn remote bulb controller to override the built in freezer control.
Currently, I have it on the back porch and it gets hit by the sun in the afternoon. I'm planning on adding some sort of shade to keep the direct sun off of it. However, during the summer it does get hot outside.. sometimes into the low 100's.
Whether on the porch or inside (later).. how close should I expect the temp variant to be to what I set it at. There has to be a +/- swing. I'm guessing that the more liquid I put inside the better it will be.
Currently, there is nothing inside except a full glass of water with the Penn probe and another probe I use for BBQ as my check.
I don't know how much better this will be than the larger heat sink I had in my bathtub. It was a larger blue tub/rope handled beverage bucket that contained my carboy. That seemed to maintain the temp very well.. even if I added a bottle of frozen water once or twice a day.
I bought a chest freezer from another brewer who has moved. It came with a Penn remote bulb controller to override the built in freezer control.
Currently, I have it on the back porch and it gets hit by the sun in the afternoon. I'm planning on adding some sort of shade to keep the direct sun off of it. However, during the summer it does get hot outside.. sometimes into the low 100's.
Whether on the porch or inside (later).. how close should I expect the temp variant to be to what I set it at. There has to be a +/- swing. I'm guessing that the more liquid I put inside the better it will be.
Currently, there is nothing inside except a full glass of water with the Penn probe and another probe I use for BBQ as my check.
I don't know how much better this will be than the larger heat sink I had in my bathtub. It was a larger blue tub/rope handled beverage bucket that contained my carboy. That seemed to maintain the temp very well.. even if I added a bottle of frozen water once or twice a day.