HungusBrews
Well-Known Member
My hand me down chest freezer that I was using with a temperature controller finally went the way of the dinosaur. The compressor is shot. Initially I started looking on craigs list for a replacement, but then remembered that I bartered with a friend for one of these glycol chillers
http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer/glycol-pid-MMPP4301-EP.html
I have the older model with an analog thermostat.
So my questions are...Should I take this opportunity to use this for fermentation control or should I just find another chest freezer and continue in my old ways? How difficult is it to build a jacket around the sanke kegs I use for fermentation? I use two, sometimes at the same time. The specs say that I can run 75ft of line. Is there any way I can split this to jacket two sankes with maybe a shutoff valve when only one is needed? What would be a good way to incorporate heating for when I am fermenting in the winter? Is there a way to quickly disconnect the jackets to remove the sankes for cleaning? Would I need to use copper coils for the line or would vinyl glycol line work?
Can anyone point me to threads of sanke jacket builds?
Lots of questions...thanks for bearing with me.
BTB
http://www.micromatic.com/draft-keg-beer/glycol-pid-MMPP4301-EP.html
I have the older model with an analog thermostat.
So my questions are...Should I take this opportunity to use this for fermentation control or should I just find another chest freezer and continue in my old ways? How difficult is it to build a jacket around the sanke kegs I use for fermentation? I use two, sometimes at the same time. The specs say that I can run 75ft of line. Is there any way I can split this to jacket two sankes with maybe a shutoff valve when only one is needed? What would be a good way to incorporate heating for when I am fermenting in the winter? Is there a way to quickly disconnect the jackets to remove the sankes for cleaning? Would I need to use copper coils for the line or would vinyl glycol line work?
Can anyone point me to threads of sanke jacket builds?
Lots of questions...thanks for bearing with me.
BTB