Evil Clown Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 I live in a high elevation cool climate area and now that the temperature is starting to fall I am now starting to have trouble getting my PET bottles above 18C for carbonation in the dark cupboard I keep them in. Looking for ideas to raise the temperature in a safe affordable manor. The cupboard is only getting to around 16C now and will keep dropping as winter looms closer. How I'm looking forward to the frosty -13C mornings [crying] Would a 25Watt home brew brewing pad with the PET bottles sitting on top of it in the cupboard work and would it be safe? Or does anyone have any other ideas or methods on how to raise the temperature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB8 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 I saw a guy in Canada use christmas tree lights, he put all his bottles in a closed box and zig zagged the lights around them, he controlled the heat by removing/adding bulbs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamH1525226084 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 I have my beer in my brew fridge at the moment as it was getting below 20 degrees inside. What if you wrap em in a blankie? That will at least hold heat in. Put em in yer bed maybe? [lol] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 I saw a guy in Canada use christmas tree lights' date=' he put all his bottles in a closed box and zig zagged the lights around them, he controlled the heat by removing/adding bulbs[/quote'] Gotta love CraigTube [cool] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB8 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Gotta love CraigTube [cool] Yeh I love watching him knock sht over and the noise he makes when he drinks a really good beer, he has a great down to earth attitude to brewing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Yeah same. His videos is what got me into brewing. I occasionally watch hit live cast but missed last weekend when he lost a whole keg of beer because his tap fell on the ground! [crying] [crying] [crying] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB8 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Yeah same. His videos is what got me into brewing. I occasionally watch hit live cast but missed last weekend when he lost a whole keg of beer because his tap fell on the ground! [crying] [crying] [crying] [surprised I didnt see that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Yeah I only found out by his homebrew wednesday video he did the other day. I just looked at my youtube subscriptions, 10 our of the 12 are beer related [rightful] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smithy Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Also want to apologise to Evil Clown for hijacking his thread [devil] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Clown Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 No worries on the Hijacking, it actually helped. After reading about craigtube I did a google search about the xmas light trick to heat for carbonation and found the video on youtube. I watched that and then read the comments on the video. One person uses an aquarium heater and pump in a big plastic tub with the bottles in the tub, same principal as heating a FV with the aquarium heater. I looked on ebay and have found a 300watt aquarium heater with a digital thermostat ( 16-34 deg )for around $25, so I figure I'll go down that path, that way I can use it to heat FV's too if needed [biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Put the bottles behind your couch in a milk crate... assuming inside temps are comfortable that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamB8 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 Put the bottles behind your couch in a milk crate... assuming inside temps are comfortable that is. I would love some milk crates but their like rocking horse shit up here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Clown Posted March 30, 2012 Author Share Posted March 30, 2012 Inside temperature is borderline 18C at the moment and that drops down to around 13C at night. Within 2 months inside temperature will battle to get to around 15C and at night will drop below 10C. As for milk crates in that department I'm lucky as I've managed to collect [ninja] 10 of them, and they fit 16 740ml PET bottles perfectly [biggrin] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyG4 Posted March 30, 2012 Share Posted March 30, 2012 that christmas light trick sounds like an incredible fire hazard... with that said... Canberra winter is going to suck, so i'm also going to need a similar solution :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Inside temperature is borderline 18C at the moment and that drops down to around 13C at night. Within 2 months inside temperature will battle to get to around 15C and at night will drop below 10C. As for milk crates in that department I'm lucky as I've managed to collect [ninja] 10 of them' date=' and they fit 16 740ml PET bottles perfectly [biggrin'] Sooo you saying this then I assume you don't have heat inside. How do you stay warm? Dropping to 15C or so won't really hurt, albeit the bottles would take longer to carb. A friend of mine built a cabinet to store his and runs a Reptile Heat Cord in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Clown Posted March 31, 2012 Author Share Posted March 31, 2012 Yeah it's going to get cold in the house I'm in. It's an old home, no insulation, no wood fire and only a small gas heater in one bedroom and the 10feet ceilings don't help either. Too expensive to have the gas running all day, so will most likely only use it at night for a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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