DoctorDuvel
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If this thing can help me maintain lager temps, I'm in. I currently use the swamp cooler method - the coolest i dare try is a kolsch (56 degrees min.), which is where things become a PITA (in Houston). I want lagers!
Noticed in your tests the outside temp is actually quite low. You able to run similar tests with a higher temp...where this product is intended to help? Say..with a temp outside the bag of 80 to 90 degress?
Would be nice to know how effective it is under varying conditions, especially since I'd be using a product like this in my garage and it can get quite warm in there.
Soooooo...any chance of this?
CoolBrewing said:Hi All,
As requested please see the graph for an example with a warmer environment. This was a 5 gallon batch in a 6.5 gallon plastic fermenter. This batch had 2x 2 liters and 2x to 4x 20oz changed every 24 hours. The wort was a little too chilled to begin with so ice was not added until 48 hours on Saturday. This batch used an English lager yeast with an ideal temp range of 59-75 degrees.
Cheers!
Add me to the list of an interested party. I was wondering if you have experimented with adding water to the bag to act as a kind of swamp cooler? Even if it were halfway up the bag, with the frozen bottles, it would help pull heat out of the beer much more quickly. If I were to do this, it would be just to bring it down to the temp you want more quickly if you were lagering, then siphoning out the water once you've hit your temp... just a thought. In any case, I am definitely interested since the swamp cooler setup I use now takes up too much godamn space.
Awesome. When will these go on sale?
hole for blowoff tube ?
Also - Looks like the size could work for a corny. Take one of these and a corny, ice and picnic tap and you've got a protable keorator.
I like this idea.
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I think I was your second "like."
Another benefit you may want to mention is the cool brew bag keeps the fermenter in the dark. This will help prevent skunk flavors/smells.
I use a glass carboy for fermentation. My kids keep leaving the light on in the room my fermenter is in. My most recent batch has a slight skunk smell. The cool brew bag would prevent this problem.
Hello again!
I was just curious if you knew how much shipping is going to be? Thanks!
Hello again!
I was just curious if you knew how much shipping is going to be? Thanks!
Seeing you are both in the same town... Wouldn't it be easier to bike, walk or drive ?
Love this idea.
My pin lock cornies that I ferment in are ~25" high, so it looks like it might fit and if it doesn't it will likely be close enough.
Would this fit the standard 7.5 gallon bucket fermenters that come with starter kits?
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