Cellar

[Rookie]

The house we moved into has a cellar that's maintaining right around 54f: 12/2C, which is perfect for fermenting a lager.

[f00b4r]

Not bad for serving a lot of beers too.

[MashBag]

Oh for a proper Cellar, around here it would be an indoor pool

[Cobnut]

My grandparents had a cellar when I was a child. I loved going down there, even though it had a dreadful smell of damp. That smell is so evocative of my grandparents house from 40+ years ago.

I have a hankering for a house with a cellar, but not likely to get one anytime soon.

Agree with the above comments: great for both lager fermentation’s and storing/serving beer.

Enjoy!

[MashBag]

I have a tin one. Brilliant for all sorts.

[MarkA]

I had a full cellar when I used to live in Yorkshire but unfortunately wasn't brewing back then. It would have been so easy to run a line from a cask in the cellar to a handpump in the kitchen, lovely bitter served at the correct temperture without any fuss

[Good Ed]

Yes very useful. Mine was used for coal and still has a black floor, it’s also around 12C ambient at this time of year and I get a couple of degrees cooler in the fv with it being on the floor. I store most of my gear and beer here including my fermenting fridge. As you say useful for lagers and if your stairs are like mine, there is a temperature gradient increase up the steps that you can use to your advantage by moving the fv up the stairs. Summer ambient gets up to around 18C

[Rookie]

Yes very useful. Mine was used for coal and still has a black floor, it’s also around 12C ambient at this time of year and I get a couple of degrees cooler in the fv with it being on the floor. I store most of my gear and beer here including my fermenting fridge. As you say useful for lagers and if your stairs are like mine, there is a temperature gradient increase up the steps that you can use to your advantage by moving the fv up the stairs. Summer ambient gets up to around 18C

, good ale temperature.

[Rookie]

We've been having below average temperatures here lately and the cellar has stabilized at 48f (9C).

[Rookie]

I moved it upstairs, where we keep it at 60f (15.5C), after ten days to make sure it finishes.