Hi all,
My home brewery is in my tool shed and from spring to autumn, my brewbelt works a treat on my FV. Also, after I bottle up, I just lay the brewbelt over the bottles for the first week and cover with some tinfoil to keep them at a steady temp and that has also worked fine.
During the winter months (and especially our recent December) it was a total disaster. The ambient was too low for the brewbelt to be of any use so had to set the spare room up as an emergency brewery over Christmas much to the wife's displeasure!
I have therefore been trying to think of an answer to temperature regulation and was considering just installing a large cardboard enclosure in my tool-shed brewery and essentially using a heat-lamp and thermostat much like you'd seen in a vivarium. This way I could enclose my FV and then my bottles and also dismantle during the warmer months.
Thermostat: http://www.valueaquatics.co.uk/komodo-h ... -1741.html
Bulb: http://www.petzoo.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=90
Anyone done anything similar? It seems to me to be an inexpensive way of solving my problem without having an oil filled radiator on for up to 3 weeks in my brewery and it throwing my hard earned into the atmosphere.
Cheers
My home brewery is in my tool shed and from spring to autumn, my brewbelt works a treat on my FV. Also, after I bottle up, I just lay the brewbelt over the bottles for the first week and cover with some tinfoil to keep them at a steady temp and that has also worked fine.
During the winter months (and especially our recent December) it was a total disaster. The ambient was too low for the brewbelt to be of any use so had to set the spare room up as an emergency brewery over Christmas much to the wife's displeasure!
I have therefore been trying to think of an answer to temperature regulation and was considering just installing a large cardboard enclosure in my tool-shed brewery and essentially using a heat-lamp and thermostat much like you'd seen in a vivarium. This way I could enclose my FV and then my bottles and also dismantle during the warmer months.
Thermostat: http://www.valueaquatics.co.uk/komodo-h ... -1741.html
Bulb: http://www.petzoo.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=90
Anyone done anything similar? It seems to me to be an inexpensive way of solving my problem without having an oil filled radiator on for up to 3 weeks in my brewery and it throwing my hard earned into the atmosphere.
Cheers
