jo83ben
Member
I was wondering about doing some sort of temp control on a blichmann conical for lagering, but being poor as I am I do not have a blichmann to fool around with haha. but my idea was to utilize an old freezer to cool a glycol tank, and a pump hooked to a temp controller to circulate cold glycol through copper tubing into the fermenator sort of like a wort chiller set up. the problem i'm not sure how to avoid is the beer freezing to the copper tubing. i thought maybe getting around this by having some sort of gentle stirring system in the fermenator, though i'm not sure it would even be a big deal if the beer froze a little too the tubing, as it was melt as soon as the glycol flow was shut off. and i've heard of entire lager batches freezing and still coming out fine.
being bored as I am and day dreaming about bigger better brew systems i made a crappy Microsoft paint depiction of this setup so you can see what i'm talking about. i'm interested to know peoples thoughts on this. and yes i know it would be expensive
http://img833.imageshack.us/i/fermenatorcoolingsystem.png/
being bored as I am and day dreaming about bigger better brew systems i made a crappy Microsoft paint depiction of this setup so you can see what i'm talking about. i'm interested to know peoples thoughts on this. and yes i know it would be expensive
http://img833.imageshack.us/i/fermenatorcoolingsystem.png/