Equipment storage during MN winter

[usrbrgr1969]

I moved all my equipment into the garage to make room in an extra bedroom that we are renting to a friend of the family temporarily. My concern is if the nasty cold will affect my equipment such as the refractometer, scales thermometers, stir plate, etc.

I brew in the garage, but do my racking and bottling in the house. I know I will have to bring my equipment in a few days before brew day to allow it to come up to temp before I start throwing heat at it. Just wondering if I need to carve out some space in my home office for the sensitive stuff.

 

[markstache]

I'd bring any chillers into the house. Freezing water could bust the coils of an immersion or counterflow chiller.

I think the rest of it is fine. I leave everything outside in the slightly less inhumane Illinois winters.