Questions tagged [swamp-cooler]
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Running a PRB or Star San solution through an Evaporative Cooler
(This is only tangentially related to brewing by virtue of Starsan and PWB - feel free to close if this is inappropriate)
I have an evaporative cooler, better known as a swamp cooler, that I use in ...
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What is the Best Water Heater and Pump to Use in my Plastic Swamp Cooler (for my Requirements)?
I am a swamp cooler guy, and this is my first winter brewing; therefore, I will need some water heaters and water pumps.
Here are my requirements:
I have plastic swamp coolers -- no burning plastic
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Why Does a Heater in a Swamp Cooler Require a Pump to Distribute the Heated Liquid?
I am facing my first winter of brewing with a swamp cooler. I need to acquire a few aquarium heaters (incidentally, please let me know if you know a good brand) and drop them in my swamp cooler to ...
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What is the best way to measure temperature in a swamp cooler?
I am thinking about setting up a bucket-o-water/t-shirt swamp cooler for my primary fermenter. The ambient temperature is about 82degF and I would like to ferment an American Ale around 74degF. I have ...
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How Much (and How Fast) of a Drop in Temperature can (Ale) Yeast Tolerate? (And Preliminary Results from My Experiment)
I have rigged up a Raspberry Pi with some DS18B20 temperature probes that measure both the water in the swamp cooler and the beer directly and store the results in a MySQL database.
I brewed a new ...
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How Should I Place a Digital Thermometer into My Fermentation Chamber and Keep it Airtight?
I have a setup with a raspberry pi and two DS18B20 digital thermometers that measure the temperature of the ambient air and the water in a swamp cooler that I place my fermentation chamber in. I was ...
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Going Below Optimum Yeast Temperatures (For Ale in Particular)
So I understand that going above the optimum yeast temperature specified is a bad thing and will cause major off flavors.
But what happens when you go underneath it?
For example, I am currently ...
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For a Swamp Cooler, what alternatives are there to Bleach, Vodka, and Star San?
I use a swamp cooler to keep my fermentation cool: a bucket full of water where my carboy or bucket goes in, and a t-shirt draped over the carboy/bucket with a fan pointed at it.
One room has two ...
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Networked/Connected Thermometer for Measuring Water in Swamp Cooler
I was hoping to put together an information system that could measure the temperature of the water in a bucket where I place my fermenting-bucket and notify my smart phone when I need to replace the ...
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My bottles are Conditioning underwater. Why are there bubbles on the caps on day 2 but not day 0 through 1?
On Sunday (day 0) I bottled beer for the first time (with my first batch). I asked my brother how I could determine whether or not I successfully locked the caps onto the bottles to make them air-...
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Would placing the fermenter tank in a tub of water be a good way to handle hot environments?
Summers where I live typically have 80F nights and it can easily pick up to 95 degrees during the day.
I have a plastic trash can (which I bought for this purpose) that I have filled up with water. ...
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