should I wait?

[prattman92]

I ferment in a big plastic drum and I just finished a 40 lbs all grain mash this weekend. I faced a similar problem with how I was going to keep it warm in a cold November. I grabbed a 5 gallon bucket, filled it about 3/4 the way with water and suspended it from my shed roof. Dropped it in my drum and put a fish tank heater in the water. Seems like it’ll work for me

[sadie33]

I ferment in a big plastic drum and I just finished a 40 lbs all grain mash this weekend. I faced a similar problem with how I was going to keep it warm in a cold November. I grabbed a 5 gallon bucket, filled it about 3/4 the way with water and suspended it from my shed roof. Dropped it in my drum and put a fish tank heater in the water. Seems like it’ll work for me

so you basically have a heated bucket of water "floating" in your mash? sounds pretty cool. It's so funny how we all do the same thing, but come up with different ways to do it.

[shadylane]

It's so funny how we all do the same thing, but come up with different ways to do it.

That's what draws me to this forum, it's so I can see how other folks do things.
There's a crazy amount of ingenuity around here.

[The Baker]

sadie33 said, 'all my buckets are marked with the L and gallon marks, I wish they put them inside too.'

I take a nice wooden 'stick'.
Decide on the measurements you want.
Say every 5 litres or every gallon or whatever.

Pour that amount of water in the vessel.
Stand the stick in the water.
Take it out and cut a mark in the stick at the water level.
Do it again with another measure of water.

Note that a lot of vessels are not 'level' at the bottom (take a different amount of liquid for the same height...).

If the sides of the vessel are level from there on up you can just cut measures on your stick,
the same as the distance between the first and second cuts.

Voila, a dipstick.

Geoff

[prattman92]

I ferment in a big plastic drum and I just finished a 40 lbs all grain mash this weekend. I faced a similar problem with how I was going to keep it warm in a cold November. I grabbed a 5 gallon bucket, filled it about 3/4 the way with water and suspended it from my shed roof. Dropped it in my drum and put a fish tank heater in the water. Seems like it’ll work for me

so you basically have a heated bucket of water "floating" in your mash? sounds pretty cool. It's so funny how we all do the same thing, but come up with different ways to do it.

It’s what seemed the most space saving and cheap solution with what I had on hand. Glad you approve haha

[subbrew]

It’s what seemed the most space saving and cheap solution with what I had on hand. Glad you approve haha

So you are open fermenting rather than sealed with an airlock? Or do you have a way to seal around your rope?

[prattman92]

It’s what seemed the most space saving and cheap solution with what I had on hand. Glad you approve haha

So you are open fermenting rather than sealed with an airlock? Or do you have a way to seal around your rope?

Open with a towel over it