Fermentation: a timespan to keep temp steady low

[Suicid]

Gday folks,

In winter temp outside I was pretty ok to ferment lager in my garage, but now it seems summer is coming

I don't have a ferm chamber built yet but want to use a swamp cooler for some time. My calcs show I could keep temp reasonable using it. But it takes... well... you know what it takes I 'd like to reduce time of dancing with frozen bottles as much as it is possible.
Before was keeping ferm temp steady for the whole time of fermentation, it was easy as all I need was just use a heatpad. But now it might be not so convinient to do so for whole...

So my question is: Should required steady temp be kept for the whole time whilst wort/beer is in primary/secondary?
Or is it enough just keep a temp until active fermentation done, and then let it up to ambient for the rest of sec fermentation/conditioning?

Thanks!

 

[joshesmusica]

here's a pretty reliable source on a homebrew scale lager method. although, without a ferm chamber with temperature control, i would think you're gonna have to babysit it a little. if your ambient temps go through major swings, you may still want to keep it in the swamp cooler while you let it get to ambient temps. that will help buffer those swings a bit.

http://brulosophy.com/methods/lager-method/

or if you really wanna get crazy, just try making a lager with a kolsch (an ale) yeast.

http://brulosophy.com/2015/04/13/la...al-yeast-vs-hybrid-yeast-exbeeriment-results/