Zephyr259
Landlord.
I love how this hobby ranges from homemade kit costing not a lot to massively expensive stainless steel units.
My current goal is for temp control, I'd hoped to fit a fridge in our porch but I think it's just going to be too tight and get in the way. So I thought I'd save up and get 2 Brewjacket Immersion Pros, since they seem really sweet and super compact. Unfortunately I clicked on their community like and it's a bunch of complaints about how delivery times are several months with terrible communication. Seems they can't keep up with orders and may have had a supplier issue. Combined with the fact it can only be sanitised with iodophor (which we don't seem to get) or by being boiled for 15 mins in the wort (sounds messy / burny), it's starting to sound a bit less promising.
The other solution is go whole hog magpie and get an SS Brewtech fermentor with one of their heating/cooling systems with the submersible pump pumping hot or cold water through coils. The standard brew bucket and temp control is actually less than 2 Immersion pros, but thinking about it wouldn't be good for lagering except by using the brulosphy method.
So I'm now stuck and sad. :sulk:
Someone on here uses a brew bag with chilled bottles of water. Who is it again? I'm wondering how cold you can get things in that. I really wanna make some biere de garde, altbier and vienna lager.
Thanks, that's my rant over. :-)
My current goal is for temp control, I'd hoped to fit a fridge in our porch but I think it's just going to be too tight and get in the way. So I thought I'd save up and get 2 Brewjacket Immersion Pros, since they seem really sweet and super compact. Unfortunately I clicked on their community like and it's a bunch of complaints about how delivery times are several months with terrible communication. Seems they can't keep up with orders and may have had a supplier issue. Combined with the fact it can only be sanitised with iodophor (which we don't seem to get) or by being boiled for 15 mins in the wort (sounds messy / burny), it's starting to sound a bit less promising.
The other solution is go whole hog magpie and get an SS Brewtech fermentor with one of their heating/cooling systems with the submersible pump pumping hot or cold water through coils. The standard brew bucket and temp control is actually less than 2 Immersion pros, but thinking about it wouldn't be good for lagering except by using the brulosphy method.
So I'm now stuck and sad. :sulk:
Someone on here uses a brew bag with chilled bottles of water. Who is it again? I'm wondering how cold you can get things in that. I really wanna make some biere de garde, altbier and vienna lager.
Thanks, that's my rant over. :-)
