What do you do about brewing when it gets hot and you live in Texas

[thedidey]

+1 to the tub swamp cooler method. I live in Tucson and we have the house around 75-80 in the summer. I have about 12 frozen 20 oz coke bottles. I put my fermenters in a large tub half filled with water and drape a towel around them. I add about 3 of the coke bottles a day and can maintain 65 degrees with no problem.

 

[CrAzYmOuSe]

Dave, get that Kolsch temp down ASAP. I am surprised with that strain it didn't explode. +1 on the swamp cooler. Here in PHX it is already in the mid-high 70's in my house during the day so I have had to already start doing this. I am looking into a temp controlled freezer for the summer. Hauling water bottles twice a day sucks ass IMO.

 

[Treshombres]

Get one of these with a temp controller (I use a Johnson A19). I got this from Craigslist for $120. With this, I can now lager. I also live in the DFW area and with our wild weather I'd be lost without my fermentation chest. Happy Brewing!

How many square feet is your freezer? wondering what i shoud be looking for as a miniimum to have 3 fermenters at a time?

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

How many square feet is your freezer? wondering what i shoud be looking for as a miniimum to have 3 fermenters at a time?

I have a 12 cubic foot and it will only hold two buckets at a time.

Honestly, if you are going to have multiple brews of dissimilar styles you'd do better to get multiple smaller freezers.

when my current freezer tanks that is what I will do.

 

[jgln]

Every time I see the title of this I have to laugh. Once he said "What do you do about brewing when it gets hot" why did he add AND live in Texas? Got 2 problems there?

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Every time I see the title of this I have to laugh. Once he said "What do you do about brewing when it gets hot" why did he add AND live in Texas? Got 2 problems there?

Cause Texas is a different kind of hot.

 

[jgln]

Cause Texas is a different kind of hot.

I still think it sounds funny.

 

[Treshombres]

I still think it sounds funny.

Yea, really the only thing bad about living here is the summer that never ends. Gets hot in June and stays that way til September. Course all these Cowboys fans are quite annoying as well. haha

The freezer i was looking at is only 9 cubic feet. they said it had inside dimensions of 29" tall, 18" deep and 30 " wide. so depending on the space taken up by the compressor, it just may work.

 

[ibbones]

I'm gonna brew up a batch tomorrow and the forecast is already going to be 90* with a south wind so that means the humidity will be high. Nothing like stepping outside and breaking a sweat before you even start doing anything.