Wine storage,Hi, I need to make a cold storage to ferment my homebrew and wines. Can anyone recommend a good book on the subject of cold storages? Thanks.
Note – The temperature where I live is 30 degrees celsius, so yes I need some sort of air conditioning to get a more ideal temperature for fermentation (around 20 degrees).
oikos // Aug 31, 2010 at 12:50 am
If you can do the carpentry, you probably don’t need a book. The best site is an unheated basement but a closet can be substituted. Essentially, you build a small room and insulate it well. Add a window air conditioner in one wall. Remember that the outside portion will drip, so you need a receptacle for the water. Aren’t you going to want to get the temperature down below 20 deg. C for proper fermenting, though?
I’m planning on doing something similar if I can find the right house.