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Kruuuger, Yeah, the only reason you would need a heater is if you place the freezer in a location where the ambient temperature is lower than your desired fermentation temperature. If you put it somewhere that never dips below the upper 60's, then you won't need a heat source. I needed a heat...

Looks great. It's hard to tell from the pics, but is your concrete sealed & painted, or is it bare? If it's bare, you should have used pressure treated lumber for the sole plate on that framing. Having non-PT lumber on bare concrete is a bad idea and fails to meet code in most places. The...

Thanks, kmat. I added your blog to my RSS reader. I already have a change planned for this build - I need to put together a base on casters so I can wheel it around. To open the lid, it needs to sit about 10" out from the wall, but I'd rather have it closer to the wall when the lid is closed...

As I attempt to transition from occasional brewer of OK beer to serious brewer of good beer, one of the first things I need to do is get fermentation temperature under control. To that end, I've built a chest-freezer-based fermentation chamber. The design is based on many of the keezers I've...

For potentiometers, you might want to try a guitar parts supply, such as Stewart-MacDonald. I'm not sure if a guitar pickup pot would work the way you need it to, but I figured I'd toss it out there...

Thanks, Kevin. I've already tapped into the knowledge here pretty heavily for info on wiring and programming my Love controller for my ferm chamber.

Hi. I brew beer. One day I hope to brew good beer. I've actually been brewing for a little over eight years now, but only recently have I decided to become serious about it and try to make the best beer I can. To help document my progress, I created a little blog that I'm calling "When...