I have been brewing for a little over a year and I don't have an all grain system yet and I don't keg my beer, yet. I got a great deal on a 21.7 cu. ft. chest freezer that eventually will become my kegerator. For this summer I want to use it for fermentation control as I start to build a collar and acquire the parts to make a nice kegerator. My question is this, should I just make it a kegerator? I've seen chest freezers this size that have been converted to half a kegerator and half fermentation chamber. This seems ideal but like it might be a better idea than anything that functions that well. Should I even consider trying to split the chest freezer into two different purposes and if so, what temp controller should I buy? If this is a bad idea, I'd like to hear that line reasoning as well. Thanks in advance.
The coils go all the way around a chest freezer. Dividing it would not effect the cooling of one side that I can figure out.
I would make the mother of all kegorators. Go big or go home!
This is a 18.8
Here's what I did to dispense from, and ferment in, the same chest freezer:
Each carboy heater has it's own temp controller. Using this setup, you could ferment ales and lagers simultaneously while dispensing at whatever temperature you like.
"Make beer not war"
Currently fermenting: Firestone Walker Pale 31 clone Conditioning: Nothing On draught: Nothing
