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Searching like crazy to find a mini refrigerator with a flat bottom. Any model will work, as I am new to this and only brewing 1 gallon batches. Ideally it would hold a 5gal carboy so that I do not need to shop for one again when I progress to larger batches in the future. Trying to prevent building a custom fermentation chamber until I progress.
Every one I find seems to have the shelf on the bottom.
Thanks and happy brewing.
I use a wine fridge that I took the shelves out of. I can fit a 5 gallon fermenter into it. It has a digital temp display on the front and I set that to the temp I want, it works well for the German lagers I make. Most wne fridges I looked at when I was after one had a flat bottom big enough to take a 5 gallon fermenter.
A keggarator is a good choice, if it's not in use for serving. I have an old BevAir it fits two 6g Itialian carboys nicely.
If you have a good back, deep freezers work nice too.
As far as a flat bottom fridge, all of them I've seen converted usually have a DIY second bottom to make it level.
Whatever you choose you will need to add a digital temp controller to.
Hope this helps.
