The Mother of All Fermentation Chillers

[Mylo]

Here it is. Just recently completed. I don't have the second temp control or the fan's installed yet - but otherwise she's ready.




She sits on top of my 14.8 CF chest freezer. It will have two temp controls - one for the bottom that controls the freezer for serving temps and one for the fans on top to control the fermentation temp. The fans will be two 120MM fans - one that draws from the bottom, and one that pushes back down.

The whole thing is insulated with two layers of 3/4" rigid insulation (~ R10)(extruded polystyrene - not the "coffee cup" expanded poly). There are two trap doors that lift out to access the kegs. This will easily hold 4 6.5 gallon carboys. I only have two ventamatics on there right now - but I left space for 4 more.

Here is the link for all the construction photos. A full write up will be on www.wortomatic.com shortly.


Mylo

[seanhagerty]

Sweet. Do you have any idea if the fans will draw enough cool air into the chamber?

[TimmyR]

Ingenious...

[Dirk McLargeHuge]

When you put me in your will, I want that. Nice job.

Hate you, though.

[Thunder Chicken]

That is kick ass! How cool can you get the fermentation chamber?

[BDawg]

Nice job, brotha!

[Petedadink]

I like the idea. Is it easy to get to the bottles?
how do you heat the top portion while keeping the bottom cold?

[katzke]

how do you heat the top portion while keeping the bottom cold?

Well I think his idea is it will be self warming. Or the temp controller will only add cool to it. The idea I think is it will be cooler then the room it is in so heating is not a problem.

Remember it is on top of the freezer/keg cooler and cold air sinks.

Now if you had it outside then you would need some kind of heat if you are in a cold climate. Same with your keg cooler.