How many fermenters/show us your fermentation space thread

[Mischief_Brewing]

As I sat contemplating another homebrew related purchase this morning, I was inspired to start this thread.

This is one section of my crawl-space basement currently holding a pumpkin ale, a peanut butter cup stout, spiced cider, and 10 gallons of honey irish red. Not in the picture are the mead and dandelion wine secondaries, and the black IPA being cold-crashed.

In total, I guess my list would be:
4 primary (6 gal or more size)
3 secondary (5 gal)
3 small secondary (3 gal)

I ran out of airlocks and had to improvise blow-off tubes. I'm planning another 35 gallons over the next few weeks and will only be opening up 2 more primaries before then, so off to the LHBS store I go...

So have at it. How many primaries/secondaries do you have. Show us in pictures!

 

[Revvy]

I think I have 13.

This was earlier this summer...

My Fermentation Closet: #1 Grain test Pale Ale 1 (dry toasted) #2 German Apfelwein (hard cider @ 3 months) #3 Grain test Pale Ale 2 (soaked in sugar solution then toasted) # 4 Grain Test Pale Ale 3 (soaked in water then toasted) #5 1-gallon Date Wine #6 Old Ale Brewed on New Years, then oaked for a week and racked to a tertiary to bulk age)

Here's the closet I ferment in the above pic would be in the left corner, in the nook in the closet behind the folding door. Bottles in milk crates are stored in the right nook behind the folding door on that side, I've since gotten rid of cardboard beer boxes.

 

[brrman]

I have three 6 and 6.5 primaries and couple secondaries... Thats about it.
I am only allowed so much space downstairs in the laundry room (the rest of the basement is my woodworking shop).

 

[remilard]

I can ferment two beers at once temperature controlled. Theoretically a third if I only need heating, but I almost never have that many going. I keg at 2 weeks, maybe 3.

I ferment mead at basement temp and sometimes have several of those going.

 

[carnevoodoo]

I can fit three carboys in my fermentation freezer, and one in my other temp controlled fridge. I want to get a double door commercial fridge that can hold a 14 gallon conical and at least two other carboys, preferrably four.

 

[cruckin78]

I just acquired a 16" X 20" shed that is going to be converted into my brew kitchen/and fermentation area.
Currently have 3 5 gal bucket, 1 6.5 bottling bucket,
1 6.5 gal carboy.
3 5 gal carboys.

 

[vandeg]

Have 2 buckets, I use the farthest basement (northwest) corner away from the heater ducts, on the ground, since its the coldest part of the basement. Once winter sets in, it'll get nice and cold!

 

[tallybrewer]

Three; plus a loaner. Here's a pic.

 

[ArcaneXor]

I have two 6-gallon Better Bottles, one 5-gallon Better Bottle, one ale pail for sour beers as well as four 1-gallon jugs and an old MrBeer fermentor. I guess I could also ferment in my kegs if I really wanted to (I have five right now, four Cornelius and one Firestone VI), but prefer to have only one beer at a time that needs to be temp controlled (unless I am using the 1-gallon jugs, I can handle all four of those going at the same time). In other words, my pipeline can handle about a brew every five to seven days, but keg space would very quickly run low if I brewed that frequently.

I use this as my fermentation chamber:

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Mine holds 2 cornies for fermentation. I also have a 6 keg keezer for overflow fermenting and lagering. If I need more space (only once) I use a water bath.

My chamber is an old Sub-Zero built in I scored for free from a family member redoing their kitchen. I replaced the door inside and replaced the thermostat with a LOVE TSS2-2100 and added the heater/fan. I love it...

 

[Trouble_Brewing]

I have 3 three gallon BB and one 6 gallon class carboy. Most of my batches are the smaller size. I can squeeze two of these better bottles in my small fermentation fridge. I also have a chest freezer that I use for lagering and storing my bottled beer. I usually have two batches of ale and one lager going at any given time.

 

[TomSD]

I only have a 6 and a 6.5 gallon carboy. Along with a handful of growlers (both .5 and 1 gallon) and an assortment of jugs/bottles/jars for messing around with.

My chamber is a recently purchased and refurbished chest freezer off CL with a Love controller managing it. Got the freezer for 30 bucks and it worked but was in terrible shape. Rusted interior and the lid was compromised and total frozen up. Add to that loose food that had frozen and refrozen in there and it was a mess.

Easy to clean up though then maybe 20 bucks at Home Depot plus some time and it is in great shape now. Cleaned up the inside, scraped out the rust and hit it with spray primer then use silicon on all the corners since they had rust and were compromised. The hardest part was the lid... ripped it open and dumped the existing insulation then put in sheet insulation in the body and some filler insulation in the molded part. Sealed it up and put new weather stripping on it. The weight in the picture really isn't need now that the stripping has formed a good seal but better safe than sorry I guess.

It is currently sitting in the garage and will most likely stay there until I take the time to sand, prime and paint it since it is butt ugly on the outside.

Running my first brew through it now... it freaking rocks. The fermentation took right off and I adjusted the temp down and it is raging but the temp is staying well within the ferm temps for the yeast. No more odd tastes I can't pin down from wild temp swings, woho.

Oh and it can hold two easy which is about what I expect to need. I could fit another and still fit starters and smaller bottles easy.

 

[Chad_C]

Right now I have 3 6.5 gallon carboys, 3 5 gallon glass, and 1 5 gallon HDPE carboys, and 2 1 gallon jugs. I use the 6.5's mainly and will use the 1 gallons to do small batches of mead, but the 5 gallon carboys don't get used. I plan on getting rid of them, and replacing them with 3-4 7 gallon buckets once I build by brew rig this winter and step up to 10 gallon brews.