How about just turning the heating up to 23C for a week while it's fermenting? It's going to be cheaper than buying a heater or controller.
Of course, the difficulty will be getting the missus to let you turn it down again afterwards....
Maintaining a steady fermentation temperature
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Re: Maintaining a steady fermentation temperature
Fair point. It would be a lot cheaper and as a bonus, she gets to be snuggly and warm for a week. Maybe she might even start liking this brewing lark... finally!!adm wrote:How about just turning the heating up to 23C for a week while it's fermenting? It's going to be cheaper than buying a heater or controller.
Of course, the difficulty will be getting the missus to let you turn it down again afterwards....
Re: Maintaining a steady fermentation temperature
Indeed, that sets a dangerous precedentadm wrote:How about just turning the heating up to 23C for a week while it's fermenting? It's going to be cheaper than buying a heater or controller.
Of course, the difficulty will be getting the missus to let you turn it down again afterwards....
He'll only ever be able to make estery Belgian styles, there's no hope of a proper lager