Recent content by Norsebrewer

Nice missionary work! I frequently bring homebrews to work, hoping to open my colleagues eyes to the fact that there is more to beer than mass-produced pilseners.

I think you are right, now that I think about it.. a large mass of beer inside that bag will surely help keep the air temperature a bit more stable.

Fair point. So far, I have only been testing it with an empty bucket, and wort temperature is of course all that matters. Still, I was not expecting air temperature to rise that quickly..

I just ran a test, where I let the fans cool the bag down to 9.5C. When I shut the fans off, the temperature increased to 15C in exactly 4 minutes and 30 seconds. This is of course with no ice cooling the bag, but nevertheless not very impressive. I will have to think of some way of insulating...

Hi guys. I learned about this cooling bag from this thread, bought it, and had it shipped to Norway in order to test an idea I had about controlling the temp inside the bag. What I did was I bought a small cooling bag that would fit two 1.5 liter water bottles, cut a hole on each side of the...