Temperature Control?

[Steven98]

Apologise if this has been posted before but wanting to know...

Im planning on brewing in my cellar which i think is a goooood option but what do you do about temperature control? Cause i know it gets cold down there or shall i just not put it down there or wrap it in towels or just stick it down there and watch? i dont see it being a problem getting warm but going cold is obviously a concern?

Any advice welcome....

[Tramorak]

Flexitub with water in it and a fish tank heater.

Keeps it temperate and catches any coopers explosions.

T.

[Ditch]

Apologise if this has been posted before but wanting to know ... Any advice welcome....

Ye didn't look too hard, did ye? Clicky.

[Steven98]

Apologise if this has been posted before but wanting to know ... Any advice welcome....

Ye didn't look too hard, did ye? Clicky.

I saw this but is that that they are too cold then?? i thought they were too warm?

[Ditch]

No, mate. I like to brew my stuff quicker and, living in an old, Irish farm cottage, with eighteen inch thick stone walls, it takes something extra to get the temp's up in an empty room, even in the height of Summer.

Bit like your cellar then, really. Only, ye cellar's liable to be steadily cooler, year round.

Either way, both perfect examples of where 50 Watt fish tank heaters come into their own.

Just don't get suckered into buying 'bargain' ones from Hong Kong, on the Bay ~ we've covered this before too Go to a local pet shop / aquaria of some times standing and buy a solid, German make


Good heater takes the guess work out of ye brews better than any bloody Hydrometer

[Stomach]

No, mate. I like to brew my stuff quicker and, living in an old, Irish farm cottage, with eighteen inch thick stone walls, :

I had a feeling this was what you lived in! Middle of nowhere with great views?

[Ditch]

Middle of nowhere with great views?

Yes, mate. I'm so far from the road, most people wouldn't think to even try to go there, without they drove. And, when ye get there? F**k all there either!

Six miles to 'town'. Nothing around me but open countryside. Dinny new Gard once asked me, when I was renewing my rifle license; " How do ye get to all ye hundreds of acres of permission for using this thing? "

With great delight, and no little self control, I just said: " I open my front door ..... "

[Steven98]

Thanks!!!

I'm going to give it a go tonight!!

[Ditch]

Good man, Steve. Watch yeself though. Remember to sanitise it first. Also, these modern yokes tend to have an external scale and setting knob on them. I set at 21 / 22 and trust to the factory calibration. I've never yet had one go hay wire on me. But, I'm sure someone will come along, wagging the big finger and saying ye should test it in a bucket of water first.

Yeah. What ever. Bloody Hydrometers next ....!

[Stomach]

Middle of nowhere with great views?

Yes, mate. I'm so far from the road, most people wouldn't think to even try to go there, without they drove. And, when ye get there? F**k all there either!

Six miles to 'town'. Nothing around me but open countryside. Dinny new Gard once asked me, when I was renewing my rifle license; " How do ye get to all ye hundreds of acres of permission for using this thing? "

With great delight, and no little self control, I just said: " I open my front door ..... "

Haha superb! We are 12 miles from Aberystwyth in the Cambrian mountains. Pretty remote and when the lights go out, feck me its dark!!