| After many years of fermenting my
beers in glass carboys and the resulting breakage and loss of potentially
great beers I have switched to all stainless steel. While I would
love to have one of those conical fermentors I have found that an ordinary
50L keg does a fine job. I cut the top out with a high speed air
cutoff tool and perform open ferments at this time. My fermentor is
held in an old Haagen Daaz Ice cream freezer. Below is a picture of
my Ordinary
Bitter in the open fermentor. I plan to weld the top of a corny
keg to the keg so that I can do closed fermentations.
The freezer has a
temperature control on it and is controlled with one of my old
PID controllers. I brew in the garage so in the wintertime I find it
difficult to maintain ale temps without heat. I have a controller that I
can set up with a dead band and set one of the alarms as a low limit to
control a heat source. This should allow reasonably precise control
of temperature. Wiring Diagram can be found by clicking here:
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