'Ghetto' chilling & crash cooling

[DEMPSEY]

peltier's cooling coils servo lifting heat evacuation lids I do love how our ingenuity is allowed to run away with ourselves in the pursuit of brewing the perfect beer. This is how the human race managed to leave the caves.

[Dr Horrible]

There's a theory that one of the main reasons man stopped enjoying a relatively cushty life as hunter-gatherers and moved to farming (which involved a lot more work) was basically because farming meant more access to wine, beer, mead, etc.  I don't know why they even bother debating any other reasons, this one is obviously the right one!

[TheSumOfAllBeers]

I have seen commercial products in the US that used immersion cooling methods like the photos (but were peltier based - there was no coolant). And they would improve in function more if you insulated the fermenter in some way.

Well I guess I will keep faffing about with tricks to insulate these. A large camping cooler might work for crash cooling, and I might be able to make space for that. But I am pretty stuck for space to do anything wrt crash cooling.

[bionut]

Hi,

I use Irish Moss in the boil and i never had problem with beer clearing out too slow. I keep it in the fermenter for 2-3 weeks, and i BIAB, so is pretty cloudy initially, but the beer turns out clear.
I also don't have space for racking to secondary.