Gridlocked
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updated pix plz...
wooo hoooo... finished pictures!!! Since your done can you come over and do my woodworking?
If I didn't just start the brewing room in the "unfinished" side of my basement, I would take you up on that. Seriously, I'm in the middle of an all electric HERMS build, a dedicated brewing room build, and dual rustic fermentation chamber builds. I'm also slated to build a rustic wood grain bin, a motorized grain mill built into a rustic cabinet, and still need to build the shelving for my beer/wine cold storage room. All of the qualities of my basement bar and keezer builds will be incorporated into these projects with knotty pine, cedar logs, tumbled travertine, etc, so I have enough to keep me busy for a while. I have started a few other misc. threads covering my other builds. I don't have direct links on my signature line, but you can find my threads in my profile if interested.
BTW....thanks for the kind words Brew52. If you are ever in SE Michigan, let me know and I'll be sure to have a porter on tap.
BTW....Lucky_Chicken. I just read through your threads in your sig. line. Nice work! I know this is for this thread, but I'm curious how well the kegerator is holding it's temp. I'm using a mini-fridge to cool the rustic lager chamber that I'm working on. I don't think I'll have an issue getting the temp. down for the primary fermentation, but doubt if I can get the temp down in the mid 30's for secondary lagering. What kind of temps are you able to hold and what's the R value of your insulation panels? I greatly appreciate any feedback.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm building 2 seperate chambers one for ales and one for lagers. The unfinished side of my basement does not have radiant floor heating like the rest of my basement and it stays pretty constant in the low 60's pretty much year round. Since the chambers will be in a static temp. environment, I decided to do seperate warm and cold chambers, because 60 degrees isn't quite warm enough for the ales that I brew and it isn't quite cold enough for the lagers that I'm going to start brewing. For my ale chamber, I plan on using a reptile cage mat heater as my heat source. I'll let you know how it works.
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