Wouter
Well-Known Member
I don't know. Personally I wouldn't be too worried about it and just bottle without a cold crash. It'll be fine :).
And if you really like the brewing and want to meddle with temperature control (one the best ways to improve your brewing) you can do the cold step easily without moving the fermenter around. My own temperature controlled thingy cost around 10 euro to make and took less than an hour of fiddling around.
Just took an old fridge I was else going to throw out. Then I installed two power outlets in a wooden box with a thermostat (STC-1000 €6 from ebay, you can also buy a complete version of this: the Inkbird). In one you plug in the fridge, in the other a lightingbulb I put inside the fridge. And boom, you have perfect control of the temperature.
At the start of the fermentation I stick the temp probe to the fermenter and select 20 degrees. The light bulb produces heat if required and the fridge cools down if it gets too hot. And when I want to cold crash it I just put it to 4 degrees, and it automatically goes to 4 degrees within a day.
And if you really like the brewing and want to meddle with temperature control (one the best ways to improve your brewing) you can do the cold step easily without moving the fermenter around. My own temperature controlled thingy cost around 10 euro to make and took less than an hour of fiddling around.
Just took an old fridge I was else going to throw out. Then I installed two power outlets in a wooden box with a thermostat (STC-1000 €6 from ebay, you can also buy a complete version of this: the Inkbird). In one you plug in the fridge, in the other a lightingbulb I put inside the fridge. And boom, you have perfect control of the temperature.
At the start of the fermentation I stick the temp probe to the fermenter and select 20 degrees. The light bulb produces heat if required and the fridge cools down if it gets too hot. And when I want to cold crash it I just put it to 4 degrees, and it automatically goes to 4 degrees within a day.
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