This is the first winter that I'll be brewing here in the Willamette Valley. As those of you who live here know, the temps stay above freezing for most of the winter but don't get that warm, either.
Last year the temperature read about 43.5 almost every day (at least when I happened to glance at it, which may have been the same time of day) for weeks at a time. I was so surprised that it would land on the same temperature so often. I think it probably warmed up a few degrees during the day, but it stayed below 50 and above 40.
I don't have a fridge to lager in, and I'm not going to be getting one any time soon because of space limitations where we live (three of us in a smallish one-bedroom apartment. Thankfully one of us is three months old ).
What do you think about lagering outside? I don't really have a covered area but I could fix something up, or put the carboy (I have all plastic right now) in a box. Anyone else do something like this? Is it going to be bad if the temperature varies by several degrees (say, 10) during any given 24 hour period? Also, perhaps I could insulate a box somehow so the temperature would stay more consistent.
Last year the temperature read about 43.5 almost every day (at least when I happened to glance at it, which may have been the same time of day) for weeks at a time. I was so surprised that it would land on the same temperature so often. I think it probably warmed up a few degrees during the day, but it stayed below 50 and above 40.
I don't have a fridge to lager in, and I'm not going to be getting one any time soon because of space limitations where we live (three of us in a smallish one-bedroom apartment. Thankfully one of us is three months old ).
What do you think about lagering outside? I don't really have a covered area but I could fix something up, or put the carboy (I have all plastic right now) in a box. Anyone else do something like this? Is it going to be bad if the temperature varies by several degrees (say, 10) during any given 24 hour period? Also, perhaps I could insulate a box somehow so the temperature would stay more consistent.