show us all your fermentation closets/chambers here

[Henrythe9th]

my project that I hope to finish soon 15 cuft freezer mother of all design and a call it a 3 in 1 box,, 6 carboy fermenting camber, cold storage below and poss lagering, and a tap or two.
I have a 3 tap kegerator




I will post more pic when i get done with it.. ok done with this project just have to find the right setting for the controllers, I think I can freeze the top also

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15cuft freezer 2x4 framed and 11/32 plywood outside 2" foam sandwiched between 1/4 plywood and finished with poly white plastic sheeting for easy cleaning, removable floor and center support, removable door header and opening top,fold up shelf for stir plates, 110v outlet inside, three 110v fans, heat bulbs in both top and bottom.. well almost finished ceramic bulbs have not arrived
I turned the top down to 35f for cold crashing we will see how cold I can get.

 

[bad coffee]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/fermenatrix-tm-182845/

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[Oldyote]

durachiller

 

[Boerderij_Kabouter]

Great looking door.
Did you design and fabricated the door?



Cheers,
ClaudiusB

Nope. It is a Sub-zero built-in unit that I happened upon. Good free pickup, and eventually it will fit awesome into the brewery I have designed. I hope to have two of them (if I can find another cheap).

 

[TimWeber]

Mine is here. Still going strong.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/weber-fermentation-chamber-159239/

 

[milldoggy]

here is mine, 21 cu ft Kenmore off CL for 100$, added a love and a shelf. Also three outlets, one always on, one on with the compressor and one on with the heater

 

[MetallHed]

 

[3 Dog Brew]

Mine is located on this thread

 

[02fx4dude]

having picture problems....

 

[TheBroonery]

Mid siphoning before bottling

Same process, different occasion

I just recently put a fridge on the left where all the chairs are stacked in this pic

 

[02fx4dude]

picture difficulties fixed.

In the winter I used a standard tub of water and aquarium heater. It actually worked quite well at keeping the temp of my fermentor within about 1 degree. But I knew that in summer the basement can get into the mid 70's so I built a fermentarium in June (fermen_arium for those southpark folks among us)

I bought a small chest freezer from Sears on sale. I had a PLC, interface, and hardware laying around to build my own controls. Been using it since June, works quite well.

Fermentarium is on the left, the small fridge on the right is the keggerator.

The batch on the left is a hefeweizen that was pitched about 48hrs ago.

Main screen on the interface. S1 is the sensor taped to the outside of the carboy. S2 is the sensor in the end of the copper tubing in the fermenting beer. S3 is the air temp inside the freezer.

The nice thing about operator interfaces like this is how easy it is to add trending. This shows the last 3 hrs of data for S1.

And the last 3 hrs for S2...

I have the controls and programming for heating but haven't had need for it yet. When I do I was thinking about using a hair dryer at low or medium setting. Also was thinking about going back to the tub of water+ aquarium heater for doing ales in the winter and using the fermentarium to try lagers...

 

[Jewrican]

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/my-side-side-refrigerator-fermentation-chamber-183647/

 

[JKoravos]

This is a cool thread...pun intended.

 

[Henrythe9th]

02fx4dude that is sweet very nice build....
added my finished pics to my post...

 

[Ki-ri-n]

Here's mine. Just finished yesterday and today it has a Stout in it

 

[Duckfoot]

New one:

 

[Xakk]

It's not huge, but it'll hold two carboy and makes for a pretty good work table to boot. It was built mostly out of stuff I had laying around, so cost was pretty minimal.

Build: https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f51/another-fermentation-chamber-143443/

 

[joe1996]

My obsolete fermentation setup.

Sliding door for process samples

Cheers,
ClaudiusB

LOL love the "obsolete" fermentation box

 

[PaulHilgeman]

I use a Crestron Control, DS18S temp sensors on SS probes in the beer, to control pumps that pump H2O around a coil of PVC tubing around the fermenter. It makes it like a fake jacketed fermenter. The controls are all touchscreen and I can control the heating and cooling setpoints for each chamber, as well as the freezer. It logs the duty cycle of the cooling system for each chamber, so I can see if it is working too hard, and when the fermentation starts to slow down.

One has 5 loops around the fermenters, and can safely ferment down to 58 degrees, and can crash a beer down to about 54 after fermentation is done.

The other has 10 loops around the fermenter and can safely ferment at 48 and can crash down to about 45 after fermentation is done.

Both chambers have a 25W lightbulb for heat, but honestly since last March, I havent used them.

 

[jet35a]

Not as fancy as some, but works. Terrarium heater and fan for heat, frozen jug of water to cool.
5-gallon batch of Biermuncher's Dry Irish Stout
4-gallon batch of The Pol's Holiday Spiced Ale
2.5-gallon batch of Wild Hop Pale Ale

 

[truckmann]

Picked this up a couple weeks ago.

 

[3 Dog Brew]

Picked this up a couple weeks ago.

That, sir, is **** worthy :rockin:

 

[nakeddog]

Apparently all you lucky F'ers have basements and tons of space! Well what is one to do if they live in a tiny ass European flat (apartment) and need to keep your SWMBO happy? You build you're own custom fermentation cabinet, is what you do!

Designed and built from scratch to be my 'brewing' cabinet. It is designed to house 4 3gallon BetterBottle carboys, all my brewing equipment and room to bottle condition 3 batches of brew. As you can see I bottle only into 750ml Champagne/Sparkling wine bottles.

Luckily my flat stays at constant 19-20deg C (66-68deg F) so I have no need for temperature control.

Those photos were taken just after I built the cabinet and did my first batch in this location. So as you can see the bottles aren't even fully prepped. Here is a photo of that first batch bottled and ready for some aging. Labels will get applied this weekend when I finally get home from a 1month business trip.

 

[truckmann]

That, sir, is **** worthy :rockin:

Thanks! It ended up costing me a bit more than I planned to spend, but it should last a long time.

Apparently all you lucky F'ers have basements and tons of space!

No basement here I have this little space to brew in. :cross:

Actually I'm still in the process of getting ready to do the first brew in the new place since moving, but having the new space dedicated to brewing is going to be wonderful.

 

[Flomaster]

awesome thread, glad it was bumped.

-=Jason=-

 

[Reno_eNVy]

Thanks! It ended up costing me a bit more than I planned to spend, but it should last a long time.


No basement here I have this little space to brew in. :cross:

Actually I'm still in the process of getting ready to do the first brew in the new place since moving, but having the new space dedicated to brewing is going to be wonderful.

Awww, that is effing amazing

 

[seafra]

--4 inch thick walls. 5 inch floor and top.
--Solid foam insulation is sealed into all wall cavities.
--All joints sealed with polyurethane glue.
--Jacketed inside and out in radiant insulation barrier.
--Total R-value: 30.

The dorm fridge on top has two 4 inch fans ducted through the bottom of the fridge into the chamber below (one blowing in, one out). The temp controller is an electronic Ranco. The thermowell for the controller probe extends into the wort. There is also a digital thermometer probe measuring interior ambient temp.

 

[Marshall081]

I'm just getting started out so I have a typical noob setup. Freezer and a single stage digital controller. I plan on making a collar pretty soon here to get a little more space. Question came up as I'm typing here. Will that freezer function on its side, so, it is taller? If not, then can I unbolt the condenser unit rotate it 1/4 turn so it will be correctly oriented when it is turned on its side? If so i could build a box out of the front of it to get the room I would like to have to fermeneters and keep my conditioning bottles in there.

 

[Bitterbrush]

I like my keezer so much that I built this setup for fermenting. I did the same double hinge setup as my keezer, so the lid or entire collar can be lifted separately. With the collar I can get a carboy on the hump. I have a Love controller that runs the freezer compressor and a reptile heater mat that is stuck down to the side of the hump.

 

[Reno_eNVy]

All together mine cost $63... found the freezer and fixed it up. Gotta love the college budget.

After preliminary painting and laying of silicone seal and weather stripping

Fuzzy pic with CHI Company temp controller

It only has room for one bucket but corny keg secondaries and the rare bottled batch can go in there as well. Also, sitting on the hump makes it really easy for me to take gravity reading samples from the spigot