My Wife

[chjohnson622]

I just moved into a new home, and I now have a garage. So I've been in the planning stages of building me a fermentation chamber with the guts of an old mini fridge. So we (Wife & I) (Yes she likes to brew) have been talking about building it with shelves for storage and kicking around alot of different ideals. So my wife just calls me and asked could you use it for a fermenter and kegerator. I told her it would be a little warm for tap beer, but I could make it a little longer add a divider and the guts from my current kegarator and yeah it could be done. She then replied "start drawing I want a 2 in 1 kegerator/fermentation chamber." :rockin:

There is really no point to this thread. Just thought I would share.

On 2nd thought if you have done this send me some info, My search has begun.

 

[number40fan]

Nice wife!

I am picturing two cut outs on the divider. One top, one bottom with small PC fans. Flaps covering both fans. Bottom fan has the flap on the ferm side while the top fan has the flap on the kegerator side. Both fans controlled by an STC. Ferm side gets up too high in temp, kicks on the small fans that will draw in cold from the bottom and blow the hotter out the top, circulating the cool air in the kegerator side.

 

[Mike_kever_kombi]

Nice wife!

I am picturing two cut outs on the divider. One top, one bottom with small PC fans. Flaps covering both fans. Bottom fan has the flap on the ferm side while the top fan has the flap on the kegerator side. Both fans controlled by an STC. Ferm side gets up too high in temp, kicks on the small fans that will draw in cold from the bottom and blow the hotter out the top, circulating the cool air in the kegerator side.

I would say instead of 2 fans, a fan and a low watt lightbulb. Though either way would probably work. The light bulb would just add positive heat to ferment side, rather than relying on passive heat gain from evacuation of cold air.

 

[chjohnson622]

I was thinking of the fan and a light bulb, but the 2 fans would look alot cooler.

 

[Colorowdy]

Nice. I thought this was gonna be my wife hates me brewing threads.

 

[Cathedral]

Hey, I just moved into a new house too! Thank goodness I don't have a wife, but I will have a wicked brew setup in the near future!

If you have the room for it, it will be seriously much cheaper* to just buy two old chest freezers off Craigslist. That way you have two completely separate, temp controlled chambers and have no worries about spilling or airflow, etc. You can build a panel across the front and top to make it look like a seamless unit, and that way you don't have to rip things apart. Just a suggestion.

*maybe, when you account for all the wood, insulation, tools to cut said wood and insulation, and all the "oh **** I need this tool" late night runs to Home Depot.