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Bit of progress on assembly... If I can get motivated today I'll cut the cover panels for the interior insulation and finish up the top insulation (goes in the three areas above the FRP.)

Shiny! You'll enjoy the heck out of that puppy.

Yep! I don't even think you'd need anythjng fancy. A recirc pump and a bucket with the appropriate glycol mix would probably be fine. What I noticed is when I got things up to temp the pump itself was enough to maintain. But I like the ease of just tossing the heater into the glycol reservoir...

LOL all good!

Ya even keeping my space somewhat conditioned wasn't really enough. It's a lot of cold metal and hard to defeat the insultation from the outside! But the aquarium heater I'd argue is quite elegant lol! Just gotta be sure to keep the liquid moving and not let the heater run without any circulation.

Huh?

I'll weigh it later to double-check lol. I think that is one I looked at but since I was trying to buy during the pandemic this was the only one that was in stock!

So just to follow-up on this - a 100w aquarium heater took care of it! I rigged it up to my glycol chiller and just used the built in pump to circulate warmed glycol. Within' just a couple of hours I was back up to ferment temp and things took off. This worked shockingly well so I feel like it's...

Sa-weet! Checked out your build - wow looks great! I do love the tower system and part of the reasoning for the lid is to have a path to that in the future if so desired. I know I'm not anywhere close to that in terms of weight at this point though. I'm thinking I'm under 15 lbs at this point...

Hi - so in the spirit of all that is homebrew goodness I'm sharing my keezer lid build. In all honesty I have no idea if this is going to work lol! I'm afraid the weight of the lid, although not crazy, might overwhelm the stock hinges. That said I've used poplar, foam insulation and FRP so it's...

Thanks! I am always up for inexpensive solutions! Plus this being Colorado a space heater is never a bad thing to have :) I had considered that over the weekend as well. Any specific kind of space heater?

Ya this is kind of what it's looking like. I think before I go an extreme route like this I'm going to see if I can knock out a bit higher, just get fermentation going then I'll get it down to the right temp. It might require knocking out a little higher than I would have back in Virginia lol.

Thanks!

Hah thanks! It definitely turns a few heads as people walk by lol.

As have I lol! But according to my temp gauge I should have come in right around 70-72 so I'm not sure why it dropped so much honestly. I really do think the environment had a lot to do with it and it just didn't have a chance to get going first. Now that fermentation is pretty much over it has...

Visual might help!

I built a panel with a couple Auber SYL-2342's... they control solenoids in my glycol manifold.

Thanks! I'll probably look into some kind of wrap as well - my concern with wrapping however is that with the jacket I'm not sure how well external wrapping will penetrate the insulation between the outer and inner layers. As I sit here and write this though I'm happy to report I was successful...

So I moved to Colorado and never did I anticipate the idea of not being able to keep my fermenters warm enough! This is the first time I brewed here so I approached it like I did back in Virginia which in hindsight, I screwed up I should have kept the wort a little warmer when transferring to...