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I'm currently using a fermwrap taped to the back wall of my fridge in a detached garage. Not exactly sure of the temp in the garage, but i have a water bottle frozen solid in there for a while and fridge set at 63-64F with a Ranco, and it's holding there nicely. I am thinking of building a...

Hey there Hermit..... yea... i've been putting the sensor in the air, in the fridge, in an effort to keep it somewhat even for multiple carboys. Granted not as accurate for a single carboy, but i figured it should be somewhat ok for keeping multiple ones similar. Hey there rocketman...

Hey gang.... Thanks for the thoughts.... Much appreciated... Yea... the reason i don't wrap the carboy with the fermwrap is what samc mentioned. Doing 2 at once in the fridge. It usually works pretty good unless it gets really cold like a couple days ago. The basement would probably be...

Hey gang...... I've been using a ferm-wrap heater taped to the back wall of my fridge in the garage plugged into a 2 stage temp controller and it has been working great until i noticed this morning it wasn't quite keeping up. I read a couple posts on people saying they're going to try a small...

Hey Gang.... From a first AG perspective, my brother and i landed in the 10 hour neighborhood yesterday... heh... Granted there were things we could have done while other things were going on which would have helped, but for the first AG batch that was kind of the plan.... A few things that...

oh man.... i didn't know what it would be, but for some reason, i didn't think of lactobacillus... man... yea.. i'm gonna have to find a new home for that.. She was originally wanting to put it out in an un-heated room/closet attached to the side of the house.... which would be great, but i...

Hey gang.... A bit of an odd question here... My wife is in the process of making home made sauerkraut and is about to open ferment a 5 gallon crock full of cabbage in the closet full of brewing equipment to do so. Now while i'm looking forward to trying it, i'm wondering if the open ferment of...

Well shoot.... Yea... not sure what the guy meant now that you say that, unless he meant grist size? In that i could fit more grain in with a smaller false bottom? Either way, that seems a bit shaky. Yea... I'm not looking to increase my odds of channeling before i even get started, that's...

Hi gang.... Just ordered an all grain 10 gallon round cooler setup thinking i was going to get a 12 inch domed false bottom. Instead it came with a 9 inch domed false bottom. I guess my question is will it really make any difference in the beer using the 9 inch vs 12 inch false bottom? Speed...

My 2 cents says you'll be good.... I recently got this 8 gallon kettle and have done a couple 5 gallon full boil batches in it, and had no troubles. I really like it, but kinda wish i could do a 10 gallon batch now... heh.... but for 5, or probably even 5 1/2, i think you'll be good to go...

Hey Brewpastor.... It's been a while now since you've put this in. Very cool by the way. Just wondering if you'd go the coolbot route again if you did it all over again... Right now, i'm working on a fridge but bigger is better some day.. heh... and i like simple. Thanks man....

Ha... yea... normally, that would have been my first thought as well, as i would like my kids to do the same for me as well, though, by the time they told me about it, they had already gone to Lowe's and bought a new fridge. So i'll buy their old one from them, and haul it away for them as they...

Hey gang.... Found out the other day that my folks' fridge appears to be stuck on now for what ever reason and is now freezing stuff no matter what. My thought was i could take it off their hands and it might still make a good fermentation cooler. I was thinking if i plugged it into a 2...

Another thought about your water source, if you had a shed or something with a roof in the area, you could catch rain water and route it to your storage container with out any pumps assuming it's higher than your tank. It's amazing how much water can be snagged from a small shed in a decent...