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In fullness of time, Covid19 permitting I have a spare fridge freezer, house moves stalled, old house in lock down area, so don't want to get some thing which will at end of day be surplus to requirements. Also the insulation on a fridge is too good, so start a brew off in a fridge even when 4...

I like Morrison's Bitter, only 2% so I can drink it all night, and if bought in England 90p for 4 cans so actually cheaper than pop. OK there are beers that taste better, but not at 2% and I want to drink all night without falling down the stairs.

Now that sounds a good idea, there was a sort of one in 2019 at local railway, more down to folk music, but was a beer tent, limited how much I could drink as would need to take push bike for a walk home, not because drunk, but hill too steep, must get an ebike. Not allowed to drink when...

OK this time of year not really a problem, I have a demo under floor heating tile, about 20 watt, I put the fermenter on the tile, a sensor under a belt pressed hard against the side of fermenter, a home made controller a MH1210A and a STC-1000 and I just put a coat around the fermenter with the...

Trying to Lager a kit, I had read all about low temperature used to lager, so had a lager kit, so thought OK 10°C should work, in some ways not a total failure as it taught me a lot, mainly that when making beer with tap water which has not been boiled then you can't possibly stop all infection...

When I brewed beer kits last time I had a fridge/freezer so it was easy, set the temperature, and walk away, however moved house, so have means to heat, but not to cool, now I remember when first using a fridge/freezer not turned on, I found even in winter the brew would over heat in first few...

This is also my thoughts when reading the replies, I see replies on here quoting 20°C that is not what I would call "low temperatures" I have not really tried lagers to be able to comment but this looks nice even if it isn't. But to my mind lager does not mean a light beer, it is how it is...

Did not work, bathroom far too cold, could not find any heaters, this is going to be a rotten brew, if it were not for Coronavirus I would buy a heater, but since whole idea is isolation it means that will need to weight .

To my mind Larger and Indian pale ale both are designed to be stored, to make a Larger the yeast has to work at a low temperature, and everything has to be really clean, it takes longer to produce the alcohol, so more chance in early days of getting some thing in the brew before the alcohol...

Up and running in bath, I will guess evaporation will cool so likely will need to add hot water tomorrow.

I did say I still have the controller, but yes not really plain as to what looking for, I would have likely also recommended Inkbird today, when I started they were not around so used the STC-1000. Think @HarryFlatters has the way forward, even if no trug I can use the bath, no one living in...

I have a MH1210A and a STC-1000 the latter can control heating and cooling and was used to control the freezer and set of bulbs used when starting a brew, and the MH1210A looks nearly the same but can only control heating or cooling and was used after racking to maintain the temperature heating...

As said cooling not heating is the problem, I seem to remember years ago in Algeria seeing wagons with the water bottle wrapped in sacking and hung off the wing mirror, I wonder if I can use a similar method? Wet towel and simple fan, or similar, but would be better not to reinvent the wheel and...

Morrisons did 4 cans of bitter for 90p simply not worth brewing at that cost, OK only 2% but it was OK, now jumped to £1.76 so time to start brewing again. Still have fermentors, but fridge/freezer gone, so thinking of control methods, still have the controller but can't cool can only heat...

The Boot on the rows near to cross has reasonable priced beer.

I tested with probe both in the brew and held against the fermenter wall with a sponge over it to insulate from ambient air, difference less than 0.5°C so use the sponge method all the time now. In the fridge and freezer put in an extra sensor to monitor ambient air temperature, new brew little...

The problem I found was the insulation can be too good, to begin with I brewed in the kitchen, and I used body warmers, with the air lock sticking out of the neck, the temperature in kitchen was slightly too cold, so day one no insulation, then day two body warmer on. However when the...

As said not living at home is a major problem, the fridge/freezer used to brew in is too big to fit in car, there is no room in mothers house to set it up in the house, so I have to find time to return home to bottle the brew, so it sits in fermenter far longer than it should.

When I read up on stuck fermentation, it seems yeast can communicate with each other, so if the yeast detects bad conditions is closes down waiting for conditions to improve. So add new yeast and the old yeast tells the new yeast to shut down, if you transfer to a new fermenter removing as much...

When I started with kits Morrisons were doing them for around £7 a can, so it was really cheap beer, to move to anything not done by Morrisons resulted in a jump to at least £12 a can. So I stuck with Scottish heavy where I could. However the brews varied according to time of year, by the time I...