So I just tried my third brew last night and, much to my dismay, it's confirmed my suspicions that my humble swamp cooler "temperature control" isn't sufficient to be able to enjoy this hobby. Due to the ambient heat in my apartment (I'm right above a Greek restaurant, which is great in the winter as it means we never need to turn the heater on!), so the normal room temperature in my place is usually around 26 degrees Celsius. Every brew I do is just a massive bomb of banana esters and really unpleasant ethyl acetates. So I'm looking at alternatives, like getting a smallish (5 cu. ft. / 150 liter) chest freezer and an Inkbird control unit.
I was just talking about it with a coworker of mine to see if they have a dolly I could borrow, in case I order a chest freezer and need to schlepp it to my apartment from the store across the street. We then got to talking about the setup I was thinking about, and they said that the chest freezer + Inkbird would be drawing a ton of electricity compared to just buying a refrigerator and using the manual temperature controls that are already built-in. Is this true? I mean on some level it makes sense since the Inkbird would be constantly activating and deactivating the freezer, and cooling down to a target temperature generally uses more energy than maintaining a consistent temperature as a refrigerator would.
Submitted May 13, 2016 at 01:34PM by Droney http://ift.tt/1Or8My9 Homebrewing
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