3 beers, but only 1 temp control?

[Majafoo]

I've been looking into making a temp controlled freezer or something for fermentation, and What's been bugging me is wondering how you would ferment different beers with different yeasts with different ideal fermentation temperatures.

Do you usually keep all ales fermenting at the same temperature?

Do you have a second freezer/keezer just for lagering as well?

 

[1Mainebrew]

It really depends on your pipeline...

 

[MrManifesto]

pipelines isn't really a concern, it's the yeast you're using. yeasts will perform differently at different temps but if you can settle on a yeast that will perform most of the duties you want it to (i use wlp007 for most things) then you can brew, for example, an IPA, a pale and a brown ale all together at 65.

 

[1Mainebrew]

What I meant was that if your pipeline is long and your kegs/bottles are full, you can transfer to secondary after you brew a couple of ales and then crash cool and brew a lager... that way you could be brewing a lager and bulk aging ales at the same time. That wasn't clear at all in what I wrote. Ooops. But I agree with MrManifesto about choosing a yeast and brewing different styles with it. I've never used wlp007, but wyeast 1056 can produce a bunch of different styles too.

 

[RM-MN]

Ales really only need temperature control until the fast part of the ferment it over as this is where the flavor profile is set. Once the ferment slows you can move them to a warmer location without changing the flavor which will free up temperature controlled space for the next batch.

Lagers are a different situation and if you choose to do both ales and lagers you need to have separate fermenting chambers.