Keeping the mash warm in winter

by **Wellsy** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 5:15 pm

Just grabbed a couple of single bed $15:00 blankets from Aldi special buys which start today.
They fit nicely around a 220 litre drum

by **dans.brew** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 7:44 pm

Have you got yourself a temp controller to run them on?
I've just got mine running on an inkbird

by **The Stig** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:03 pm

I just live in QLD , never a problem :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

by **Wellsy** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 8:14 pm

Yes I have got a temp controller but the 220 litre barrels are hard to get into a controlled area. So it is a heater and something to control the variations in temp

by **dans.brew** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:06 pm

The Stig wrote:I just live in QLD , never a problem :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

Yeah, yeah... stop bragging!
:laughing-rolling:

by **The Stig** » Wed Apr 21, 2021 10:34 pm

dans.brew wrote:
The Stig wrote:I just live in QLD , never a problem :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

Yeah, yeah... stop bragging!
:laughing-rolling:

NEVER :music-deathmetal:

by **Wellsy** » Thu Apr 22, 2021 6:25 am

On the plus side of being in vic it does mean there are no issues with keeping the condenser water cool :laughing-rolling:

by **Sam.** » Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:05 am

The vast majority of distilleries are in Tasmania, just saying... :teasing-neener:

by **RuddyCrazy** » Thu Apr 22, 2021 12:56 pm

Wellsy wrote:On the plus side of being in vic it does mean there are no issues with keeping the condenser water cool :laughing-rolling:

Yea but who in their right mind would want to live there :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling: :laughing-rolling:

by **Wellsy** » Thu Apr 22, 2021 4:44 pm

There is nothing wrong with living here and I am definitely in my right mind.
To quote Sheldon cooper “my mother had me tested “

by **The Stig** » Thu Apr 22, 2021 8:59 pm

Wellsy wrote: “my mother had me tested “

How long ago ? The cheese can slip off the cracker at any time :laughing-rolling:

by **silverbean** » Thu Apr 22, 2021 10:02 pm

It does get a bit cool at times but I get by with my 60L fermenter with its brew belt controlled by a STC1000. the whole lot is wrapped in polystyrene packing and bubble wrap. You could make a fermentation chamber out of cardboard and polystyrene, the whitegoods retailers are a good source and the only tools needed are a stanley knife and hot glue gun.

by **Dude** » Sun May 23, 2021 10:47 am

I use a second hand working fridge freezer ( $50.00 ) that will take a 60L fermenter controlled with an ink-bird ( $50.00 ) with a heat cord ( $25.00 ) on the fermenter.
The only thing I had to do to the fridge was remove the HI temp alarm as it went off every time the ink-bird turned it on.

by **B-Man** » Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:03 pm

I smash out my runs in summer so I don't have to worry about doing it in winter

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