Well sort of. After my first attempt at my home brew I rushed out and purchased a thermometer and another kit to try again, so first on the agenda was a test to see what temp my beer was being stored at.
Basically I got the water to about 20`C then inserted the probe of my thermometer into the fermenter and left it for a couple of days. It turns out that even in the warmest room of my house it still dropped down to 15`C after abou 24 hours, this will be the reason that I had little to none fermentation in my first brew. Even wrapping my trusty indestructable Swiss army blanket around the fermenter could not help. Damn crappy central heating system.
Fill level before adding fermenter
So because of this I decided to build myself a heating bath. Basically I got an 80 L storage bucket and put a 100 Watt fish tank heater in it this allows me to heat the water around the fermenter therefore keeping it at a constant 19 - 20 `C
Heating element for the bath, I stuck it to the bit of metal as I was not to sure about having a very hot thing stuck straight onto the plastic of the storage box
All that was required after that was to butcher the lid of the box to allow the airlock to pop out and job done. I ran some more temp tests with the probe of the thermometer inside the fermenter and for a couple of days and the temps held at a toasty 19`C. Perfect conditions for the yeast to do its Job. I wrapped it in the Swiss army blanket just to save some of the heat escaping so fingers crossed the next batch of Lager will be better
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