That's Fridge-tastic

We have finally gotten a dedicated brewing fridge. Thanks to Amie, I was able to get a free "mini" fridge. This is much larger than a normal minifridge as we are able to fit a fermenting bucket inside. As of right now, we are going to be using the fridge to cold crash beer right before bottling. Cold crashing is when a beer is done fermenting and you lower the temperature to about 40 F. Because it is so cold, everything in the beer falls out of suspesion (yeast, hops, etc) and will leave the finished product much clearer.


Eventually, we will purchase a temperature controller and we will be able to set the fridge at whatever temperature is best for a certain yeast, and we will finally be able to make lagers. Lagers need to ferment in the mid 50's, but they then require a process where they sit at about 40 F for 6 weeks. We will now be able to do this since we have the fridge, but as of right now we have no plans on making any lagers any time soon. In the pic, you can also see several glass jars. These are full of yeasts we have saved from previous batches. Elise is now very happy because there arent 8 jars taking up almost a whole shelf in the fridge. We are also going to decorate the fridge with brewing stickers. As of now, it is kind of weak, but hopefully we can fill it up with cool stickers to remind us of where we have been and what we drank.