Newtons Shed
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Hi all,
For those that don't me (I'm new on here) I'm in the midst of a keggle herms rebuild on a very tight budget, hopefully be finished for the spring. As I will be brewing in the shed I have a couple jobs left to do.
So whilst I'm waiting I'm also planning the build and as doing everything for the first time in the shed, I also want build a fermenting cupboard. Due to tight space, I don't think it will fit a fridge/(chest)freezer. I also don't see the cooling side to be too much of an issue, given the temp in the shed and batch size be 9 Gallon split into 2X 20L plastic buckets. So I plan to build a box dubble skimmed with insulation in the cavity with a 60W tube heater inside connected to an ATC 800+.
For the cooling side I'm thinking of using a Maxi beer chiller (as I have it) and very simply plumb some copper tubing around the inside of the cupboard and connect the flows & return to the maxi chiller. I don't really want the expense or hassel of adding product coils in or water jacket around the FVs for the batch size I'm doing it would be overkill, nor am I too fussed (at least at the mo) about having each fv independantly controlled, I'm just looking to have a cupboard at a stable consistant tempreture around 19 degrees and if needed a way to cool it. Would this work to bring the ambient tempreture down if it got too hot?
I also like the idea if it did work to extend and divide the cupboard in 2 and have one side as the fv chamber and other as the conditioning chamber again using a seperate controler, tube heater but the same mmaxi cooler as can runupto 4 products lines have one going into the FV and the other 2 going to the conditioning side.
Thanks and sorry for the long post!¬
For those that don't me (I'm new on here) I'm in the midst of a keggle herms rebuild on a very tight budget, hopefully be finished for the spring. As I will be brewing in the shed I have a couple jobs left to do.
So whilst I'm waiting I'm also planning the build and as doing everything for the first time in the shed, I also want build a fermenting cupboard. Due to tight space, I don't think it will fit a fridge/(chest)freezer. I also don't see the cooling side to be too much of an issue, given the temp in the shed and batch size be 9 Gallon split into 2X 20L plastic buckets. So I plan to build a box dubble skimmed with insulation in the cavity with a 60W tube heater inside connected to an ATC 800+.
For the cooling side I'm thinking of using a Maxi beer chiller (as I have it) and very simply plumb some copper tubing around the inside of the cupboard and connect the flows & return to the maxi chiller. I don't really want the expense or hassel of adding product coils in or water jacket around the FVs for the batch size I'm doing it would be overkill, nor am I too fussed (at least at the mo) about having each fv independantly controlled, I'm just looking to have a cupboard at a stable consistant tempreture around 19 degrees and if needed a way to cool it. Would this work to bring the ambient tempreture down if it got too hot?
I also like the idea if it did work to extend and divide the cupboard in 2 and have one side as the fv chamber and other as the conditioning chamber again using a seperate controler, tube heater but the same mmaxi cooler as can runupto 4 products lines have one going into the FV and the other 2 going to the conditioning side.
Thanks and sorry for the long post!¬