Inexpensive Fermentation Chiller

Here is a short video on what I did this month, since I have failed to brew ANYTHING! This is a simple setup for those Brewers in warmer climates, to allow for brewing during exessive heat.

Here's a few facts to consider:

This project was first put out in 95', things have change ALOT since then.
Even if you got a frige for free you would still have to buy a controller to make it truly useful for fermentation instead of simple cooling of finished beer.
Used friges tend to be costly to run.
This unit holds one or two carboys so they are generally less than a quarter the size of a frige.

If I didn't like to see what I could do ON MY OWN I wouldn't be a homebrewer in the first place!

FIND THE CUT DIAGRAM AND MORE AT:

http://www.wortomatic.com/articles/38DD-Mother-of-a-Fermentation-Chiller

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Howto & Style

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• Homebrewing
• Beer
• zymurgy
• wort
• fermentation
• ale
• chiller
• heatwave
• hot
• weather
• brewing

[zipperhead06]

reverse your ice trays n put em on top, suspend your carboy or fermentation bucket just above the bottom of your unit youll and add a 2nd fan youll get better air circulation

[OPE08]

@zipperhead06 The fan makes natural convection irrelevant

[BeerGogglesReviews]

I love these homemade get ups. A work of man art.

VERY COOL!!

Well cooler.

[OPE08]

@BeerGogglesReviews - thanks, it got me thru a few heat waves

[InstructionStuff]

you spent that much on materials and use the smallest possible fan

[OPE08]

@InstructionStuff - I didn't need a gale force. Actually I have two 12v fans, the other is a 6", the larger fan would have worked faster but I preferred slower. The area that the fan is in is big enough for the user to install several different fan sizes, but the smaller is more commonly found as it is used in computers and stereos.

[exSoviet007]

he is very good at spending money

[adriangogan420]

Holy shit man!Look into your newspaper for used appliances.A fridge being turned on and off is bad for the fridge not for energy consumption.

[Nasase]

you need a fan at the top, just like a pc, to turn on when your ice fan does so the heat at the top gets sucked out, and that space gets filled with cooler air

[BeerGogglesReviews]

@OPE08 An idea just came to me. If you go to the council (municiple) dumps, there are fridges being disposed of. Purpose built to insulate, built in door and probably free. It just remains for you to drill a hole for the wires for the fan etc. Might need a very small vent for the CO2, but an unsealed drill hole for the wires should be enough. Plus it's probably doing the enviroment a favour.