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Title: Other soda machine uses Post by: bubba on August 14, 2010, 08:30:14 am As some of you know, I've been brewing my own beer for almost 2 years and have been having a blast with it.. Probably made 40 batches or so... The last thing missing in my process was temp control during fermentation.. I decided to take one of my machines and convert it to a fermentation fridge. I took a temp controller and thermocouple (from work) and hooked the output up to the machines thermostat. My thermocouple is in the liquid.. Now I can keep my fermentation temps under control... It worked like a charm. The original thermostat would let the liquid get to 52deg F. I needed to be in the mid-upper 60's.. My only problem is I usually do 2 batches at a time, so this will slow me down a bit until I set up a 2nd machine :biggrin:
(http://lh6.ggpht.com/_I2xPW6CJKJ4/TGNIAj9QPfI/AAAAAAAAATc/f8uc5f_yR6Q/s512/DSCN1236.JPG) (http://lh4.ggpht.com/_I2xPW6CJKJ4/TGNICzz5y6I/AAAAAAAAATk/Wb-wma3BaY8/s512/DSCN1227.JPG) (http://lh3.ggpht.com/_I2xPW6CJKJ4/TGNIBsRNr5I/AAAAAAAAATg/wt17uDburZc/s640/DSCN1234.JPG) Title: Re: Other soda machine uses Post by: Creighton on August 14, 2010, 11:44:26 am Kewl!!
Creighton Title: Re: Other soda machine uses Post by: Jim on August 14, 2010, 12:34:54 pm That's a man with a mission ! ! !
Very Creative, indeed ! ! ! Title: Re: Other soda machine uses Post by: Cokemachinesandmore on August 14, 2010, 01:58:51 pm nice use of your on hand resources
Title: Re: Other soda machine uses Post by: Kilroy on August 14, 2010, 08:31:31 pm and home brewers don't care if their fermentation fridges are wood grained :)
Title: Re: Other soda machine uses Post by: bubba on August 14, 2010, 11:18:12 pm Thanks guys.. I've been wanting to do this for a while now.. finally got around to it.. Now that this is done, I can try my hand at a lager...
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