let's talk about ways that you can cool your fermenter down so wrap a towel around the outside of the fermenter and get it damp you can have a spray bottle that you spritz it down with you can dunk the towel in a bucket and wring it out and wrap it back around the act of the water on that towel evaporating is going to be a pretty powerful means of cooling what's inside that's what our bodies do right we sweat the sweat evaporates cools us down make your uh your fermenter sweaty as well if you want to bump that up even more you can have a fan you know facing at that damp towel around your fermenter another way that people use quite a lot that i've seen people mention on forums and so on and so forth is to have a water bath put the fermenter in the water bath and then have like empty milk bottles that you fill up with water and freeze you've got i don't know let's say you've got six of them you put three in the bath and you have three in the freezer and then you switch them out or two or whatever you know what i mean so you're cycling stuff between the freezer and the water bath to keep the temperature way down let's flip over to warming the bad boy up joey most of these are going to benefit significantly if you can once again insulate the area that you're working in so if you have a cupboard under your bench in your shed that you can whack this into that's a confined space that's going to help if you can ah man i don't know like put together a couple of stools and drape some woolen blankets over it that's going to help a whole lot too because you're not hitting a giant space for no reason but how do you heat it uh space saver heaters are wonderful they kind of overkill a lot of the time though unless you're really trying to lift up a fair bit of temperature gap heating pads heating belts and all of those sort of things that are purpose-built solutions that you can buy at brew stores are great they may not have a whole lot of heating power but you probably don't need a whole lot either electric fish tank heaters are not a bad option either just make sure that the wattage is relevant for the size of fermenter you're dealing with honestly guys a light bulb yes just a light bulb an old-school light bulb not an led one you know what i'm talking about one of those in a properly insulated little space can be a pretty crazily efficient heating tool and the best part is too if you want to turn the heating down a little bit you take the NUMBER_TOKEN watt light bulb out you put NUMBER_TOKEN watt light bulb in electric blankets they're great as well with all of these methods we're going to talk about this a little bit later on with all of these methods remember that fire safety and electrical safety is a big thing so having a heater in a confined space i hope you're picking up what i'm putting down here and having any sort of electrical appliance with a big old bucket of stuff that is probably going to start bubbling and may bubble over you get what i'm saying right obviously you also need to know the temperature of the wash so you know whether
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