After looking through the forum and around the internet it seems like for cooling/controlling fermentation temperatures most people use either a fridge/freezer with a temp controller or a bucket and wet towels/ice packs.
For a newbie apartment dweller, an extra fridge/freezer is out of the question for now as my gf informs me we don't have the space.
For ice packs and wet towels, i work a lot and i don't know if i would be home often enough to keep changing out ice packs to keep it at the desired temperatures and i am fairly suprised that there isn't much else out there.
One of the first things i saw for controlling fermentation temperatures was a brewbelt to heat up the bucket you are using if it is too cold in the area. Is there no small, per bucket cooler that would work? What immediatly came to my mind is a computer cooler, small fan/heat sink, some tubing that ran around the bucket like the brewbelt would. Would this not work, or is it just that the fridge/freezer is easier and less expensive, or am i on to something new?
For a newbie apartment dweller, an extra fridge/freezer is out of the question for now as my gf informs me we don't have the space.
For ice packs and wet towels, i work a lot and i don't know if i would be home often enough to keep changing out ice packs to keep it at the desired temperatures and i am fairly suprised that there isn't much else out there.
One of the first things i saw for controlling fermentation temperatures was a brewbelt to heat up the bucket you are using if it is too cold in the area. Is there no small, per bucket cooler that would work? What immediatly came to my mind is a computer cooler, small fan/heat sink, some tubing that ran around the bucket like the brewbelt would. Would this not work, or is it just that the fridge/freezer is easier and less expensive, or am i on to something new?