Have you needed to find a way to increase the temperature of your fermenters? I'm in a non-heated garage in Wisconsin in winter and would have the need to possibly increase the temp as well. Thoughts?
+Paul Hoffman if you have a jacket like mine you can pump hot water or glycol through it. you would have to use aquarium heaters to heat it. or the easier way would be to buy a heating jacket that just plugs into your temp controller. you can buy one at www.gotta-brew.com/categories/accessories/heater.html
Do you think a 5.1 cu ft chest freezer with 5 gallons of glycol/water mix would be enough to keep a jacketed 7 gallon SS fermenter cool? My ambient is ~75 and I'm trying to keep my beer in the mid 60s. Also, what glocol:water ratio would you recommend? This is the most helpful video BTW. I don't feel comfortable dissembling an AC unit to achieve similar effects.
Is plumbing antifreeze the same as glycol? Do you mix it with water? I sourced plumbers antifreeze which states it is good to -50. If I mix it 50/50 with water do you think it would still work to -25? I would like to use it for a closed loop for my still condenser.
How do you secure your in and out lines that go thru your lid? I see a coupler but what do you have on the bottom side of the lid with the coil? Also, we have a 550 gallon pond pump which is much larger than what we had prior. We are having challenges getting the water to go in and return if there is more than one fermenter. We have a 10 gallon barrel full of water with the return bucket/coil. We are prepping some new plastic fermenters next week and would appreciate your feedback asap if you can!Thanks,Tim
im assuming your talking about the fermenter lid? i just got some stainless steel compression fittings off ebay. have you seen my updated system its a lot more efficient and would work better with multiple FV's.
I did similar set up with the PVC lines. Our pump is bigger and hardly pumps through the 2nd or 3rd FV. We have 1/2" lines on 2 of them. Perhaps I need to go 1/4" ID? As far as the lid and the recirculation ports......I did something similar and they lead. Concerned that water will get into the beer somehow.
well you can always go with a jacket then you dont have to worry about contamination from leaks. i would try smaller lines. i have 3/4 in pvc on my main trunk line but the jacket that i have has 1/4 tubing i think or maybe smaller. the pump i use is 800 GPH.
i use glycol. the fermenter has a jacket around the outside of it so it would be impossible for glycol to touch the beer if there was a leak. the other fermenter with the immersion coil i have tested all the connection and it doesn't leak.
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Have you needed to find a way to increase the temperature of your fermenters? I'm in a non-heated garage in Wisconsin in winter and would have the need to possibly increase the temp as well. Thoughts?
+Paul Hoffman if you have a jacket like mine you can pump hot water or glycol through it. you would have to use aquarium heaters to heat it. or the easier way would be to buy a heating jacket that just plugs into your temp controller. you can buy one at www.gotta-brew.com/categories/accessories/heater.html
Do you think a 5.1 cu ft chest freezer with 5 gallons of glycol/water mix would be enough to keep a jacketed 7 gallon SS fermenter cool? My ambient is ~75 and I'm trying to keep my beer in the mid 60s. Also, what glocol:water ratio would you recommend?
This is the most helpful video BTW. I don't feel comfortable dissembling an AC unit to achieve similar effects.
+albe McCombe i think that would work. i cant remember what ratio we did. we just read the instructions on the glycol bottle we got.
Is plumbing antifreeze the same as glycol? Do you mix it with water? I sourced plumbers antifreeze which states it is good to -50. If I mix it 50/50 with water do you think it would still work to -25? I would like to use it for a closed loop for my still condenser.
Did you figure out how to pump this through a jacket and make things work?
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How do you secure your in and out lines that go thru your lid? I see a coupler but what do you have on the bottom side of the lid with the coil? Also, we have a 550 gallon pond pump which is much larger than what we had prior. We are having challenges getting the water to go in and return if there is more than one fermenter. We have a 10 gallon barrel full of water with the return bucket/coil. We are prepping some new plastic fermenters next week and would appreciate your feedback asap if you can!Thanks,Tim
im assuming your talking about the fermenter lid? i just got some stainless steel compression fittings off ebay. have you seen my updated system its a lot more efficient and would work better with multiple FV's.
I did similar set up with the PVC lines. Our pump is bigger and hardly pumps through the 2nd or 3rd FV. We have 1/2" lines on 2 of them. Perhaps I need to go 1/4" ID? As far as the lid and the recirculation ports......I did something similar and they lead. Concerned that water will get into the beer somehow.
well you can always go with a jacket then you dont have to worry about contamination from leaks. i would try smaller lines. i have 3/4 in pvc on my main trunk line but the jacket that i have has 1/4 tubing i think or maybe smaller. the pump i use is 800 GPH.
do you have any idea what the return temps are when you run it thru the frozen coils.? and how many feet do you have in the frozen copper coils. ?
Nice system. What pump do you use and what's the size of your FV? Also what's the temp of the glycol inside the freezer?
Thanks a lot!
the pump was a pump off ebay 800 gph. its 55 gal FV. I dont use this system anymore. If you see my other videos you can see my upgraded system.
Why don't you use it anymore? I saw your other system. Is that other system more effective?
yes its a lot more effective. also i can have multiple FV on the same system. the system is a lot more complex but it works great.
Thanks for the help! Cheers!!!
So you pump the glycol through the coils on the fermenters or water? If glycol, how do you make sure that there is no possibility of leaks?
i use glycol. the fermenter has a jacket around the outside of it so it would be impossible for glycol to touch the beer if there was a leak. the other fermenter with the immersion coil i have tested all the connection and it doesn't leak.
Can you cold crash in that?
yeah i dont see why you couldnt
yes