ShortFuse519
New Member
Hello, this is my first post here. I have not brewed any beer yet, and am waiting on some paychecks to buy the equipment, but I own and have read "How to Brew" and "The Complete Joy of Homebrewing" cover to cover, and am really psyched about getting started. There's only one small, yet very large, problem.
Most of the brew yeasts I read about/saw at the local homebrew place/heard about ferment at around 65 or 70 degrees. Because I live in the wonderful Pennsylvania suburbs, and summer temperatures regularly top 90 or 100, nowhere in my house is it even close to 65. We don't have a basement, and there's no way our air conditioner can keep it 65 in here for two weeks straight.
So my question: if I were to buy a cheap fridge off of Craigslist or something, will it be able to maintain 65 degrees? Is there a device I can buy/rig up to allow it to do that? Or maybe there are yeasts that ferment at somewhere around the temperature of my house in the summer, i.e. 78 or 80?
Thanks for your help
Most of the brew yeasts I read about/saw at the local homebrew place/heard about ferment at around 65 or 70 degrees. Because I live in the wonderful Pennsylvania suburbs, and summer temperatures regularly top 90 or 100, nowhere in my house is it even close to 65. We don't have a basement, and there's no way our air conditioner can keep it 65 in here for two weeks straight.
So my question: if I were to buy a cheap fridge off of Craigslist or something, will it be able to maintain 65 degrees? Is there a device I can buy/rig up to allow it to do that? Or maybe there are yeasts that ferment at somewhere around the temperature of my house in the summer, i.e. 78 or 80?
Thanks for your help