Where do you keep your fermenter?

It's curious to see where y'all keep it for best temp control

in the basement. 60 degrees all year long

middle bedroom, constant 68-72 and no more or less. i dont lager because i am not set up for it yet so it is perfect for ales.

The floor of my darkness, coolest, smallest closet. About 68-72 degrees ambient temperature this last month.

under the stairs in a closet with no exterior walls.

iambeer said:

The floor of my darkness, coolest, smallest closet. About 68-72 degrees ambient temperature this last month.

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I am beer. That's a nice set up

In my garage in a temperature controlled chest freezer.

ferg1371 said:

I am beer. That's a nice set up

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Thanks!

I live in an apartment, so no cellar here.

In my basement. Seems to stay around 60 - 65 year round.

In the man cave kitchen where it's always 69f.

In my travel trailer fridge with a Johnson temp controller.

Temp controlled chest freezer in the garage.

In a closet that is very close to a window.

Temp controlled fermentation chamber.

Basement room that is 64-66 year round, swamp cooler for the need of colder and brew belt with thermostat for warmer fermentation requirements.

I ferment under my stairs in the basement. Ground temps never exceed about 68 and I use simple soaked towels and a fan to reduce the temps further. Hard to tell by these pics but it is really just my brew area. Taps, kegs, ingredients, cleaners, tubes, vials, etc all have a place to live down there.

The other pic shows the upright freezer. I plan on leveraging the freezer and creating a proper fermentation chamber by creating an insulated box fed by a hole into the freezer. Eventually...

Dirt floor cellar in my basement, 60-62 year round.

Basement guest bathtub. Cool year round, ready access to hot and cold water baths if I need to adjust temps, and easy to clean if the airlock blows. Plus, room in the tub for multiple batches at once.

Temp controlled wine fridge in the other room

Basement but its getting too mid 60's (summer)currently for me to brew.

Various locations in basement based on temperatures therein. Water bath in basement sink as needed, sometimes with fan and towel. Soon I will make my second fridge temp controlled for two batches at a time. Wits will still be done at higher room temps.

I keep my brews in an interior closet in a swamp cooler with swapped out ice bottles until I can get my hands on a spare fridge with temp control. Living in AZ I never have to worry about things getting too cold.

I say "second fridge" but as of Monday it will be third. Craigs list and one that somewhat crapped out, now new kitchen fridge coming

White one is future fermentation chamber. Green is kegs and yeast.

In the beer room in the garage with an AC unit and heater.

I keep mine in my DIY fermentation chamber:

In a bathroom in the shower with beverage tubs filled with water, wrapped in blankets. Only have to change frozen water bottles once a day to keep a steady mid 60's even in the summer. I change them twice a day the first 3 days or so while the yeast are making heat.

Schnitzengiggle said:

I keep mine in my DIY fermentation chamber:

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Excellent! Great blog by the way.

Most of mine are kept on the kitchen countertop or the kitchen table. If I have more then one going I'll have one of the kids move the ones finishing up to the back living room for me. But with a bad back it's hard to bend over and degas several times a day if my primary isn't somewhere I can reach easily.

Usually the temp in our house is good enough that I don't have to worry much.

brewit2it said:

In a bathroom in the shower with beverage tubs filled with water, wrapped in blankets. Only have to change frozen water bottles once a day to keep a steady mid 60's even in the summer. I change them twice a day the first 3 days or so while the yeast are making heat.

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+1.. 'zackly what I do. Works great. I have a plywood sheet cut to span the tub. If the house is prop temp.. the FV sits on the plywood for easier reading of the stick'em on thermometer. If too warm, I have "big blue".. the rope handled bev bucket in the tub with water to the beer line. One frozen bottle in the AM and one in the PM seem to work very well. Temp fluctuations are very minimal. :rockin:

Mine stays in my pantry in the low 70's. Seems to work okay. But then, I am not a big beer drinker.

I usually ferment in here, now that i know it works. best build ever, and i'm only using 20oz bottles to keep it at 68 degrees.



I'm using it to keep my bottles cool and dark while it conditions. double purpose!

I keep mine in the laundry room/furnace room/storage room in the basement. 3 concrete below ground exterior walls, concrete floor, so far stays about 65 degrees constant in there, and pitch black with the light.

I'm going to be building a shelving system for storing fermenters in the very near future, and may end up enclosing it to help with keeping it dark and temperature controlled.

In my "beer spa"!

I keep the carboy in a wooden chamber at about 65F which is controlled by a thermostat, computer fan and three half-gallon jars with frozen water.

At first I fermented in the pantry, on the tiled floor, covered by a t-shirt.

Basement bathroom with a temp controled space heater on low. I keep basement temp as low as I can (closed vents) and get 55-65 depending on a season.
I still have to use water bath and a T-shirt to cool down some yeasts when ambient temp. goes above 60, some yeasts just heat up too much.
But a have a dual controller in transit and switching to an old fridge in a garage

In my man-cave in my temperture controlled fermentation fridge.

Usually the hall closet depending on the time of year. No one ever uses it and it's temp during 8 months of the year is consistent.

aerod1 said:

In my "beer spa"!

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Is that literally a spa thermostat?