[Biglare]

What have people found to be the best fermenters and best way to control temp?

[allenhuerta]

What kind of space and money do you have for them? That's the most important factor.

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[denny]

Best is gonna be subjective for everyone.  I use 3 Grainfather conicals and their glycol chiller

[BrewBama]

I use an old fridge on a temp controller to ferment in so the BrewBucket was the perfect size for me.

Those glycol cooled fermenters are awesome and when my old fridge dies I may go down that road. ...but that probably won’t be any time soon because I bought it used ~30 yrs ago and it’s still kickin.


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[Biglare]

Live in Wisconsin and will be using a basement.  Not heated

[erockrph]

I use 5 gallon corny kegs with a floating dip tube on the out post and a spunding valve attached to the gas post for fermenting 3 gallon batches. I generally ferment ales at ambient in my basement. For lagers and cold crashing I have a chest freezer with an external temp control. This doubled as a keezer until I got a separate kegerator. I also ferment lagers under pressure at ambient from time to time.

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[Megary]

Live in Wisconsin and will be using a basement.  Not heated

I live in PA and also ferment in a basement, no temp control.  (Because of this I choose my yeast wisely.  )  I use a Speidel because they are very easy to clean.  And I like easy.

[Fire Rooster]

Live in Wisconsin and will be using a basement.  Not heated

I live in PA and also ferment in a basement, no temp control.  (Because of this I choose my yeast wisely.  )  I use a Speidel because they are very easy to clean.  And I like easy.

+1
Monitored speidel fermenters (5.3 gal, 20L) in basement, to see how much above ambient it actually goes.
So I add 4-5 degrees above basement ambient, and thats what I use for yeast selection.
Depending on time of year, basement has a peak high of 66F (heat wave, 100+), and low in mid 50's.

[Biglare]

Thanks everyone for your advice

[dbeechum]

I keep wondering - what are these magical basement places y'all keep mentioning?

And Biglare - definitely follow Fire Rooster's advice and start tracking your temperatures so you'll know what you're dealing with.

[Cliffs]

I keep wondering - what are these magical basement places y'all keep mentioning?

And Biglare - definitely follow Fire Rooster's advice and start tracking your temperatures so you'll know what you're dealing with.

northern california checking in, ditto!

For me I use a brew bucket with the brewjacket.

[Drewch]

I use 2-gallon food-grade buckets and a window unit to cool a small fermentation box.

[waltsmalt]

Chest Freezer and a converted 16 gallon keg with a corny lid.  Even with that, I’m disappointed with my latest beer as I’m picking up a little bit of fueled alcohol.  That’s with a TILT and what I thought was propping pitching.  Still tastes good, but not exactly what I’m after.  However, like someone said, I’m going to try and learn from the temp pattern I used and the yeast that I used.  The journey is most of the fun of brewing, I think.

[Megary]

I keep wondering - what are these magical basement places y'all keep mentioning?

Basement, translated into its southern declension, would be “three car garage”.

[HopDen]

What have people found to be the best fermenters and best way to control temp?

Spike conicals with a homemade glycol chiller.