Hello All,

I live in Arizona, and have around fifteen one gallon batches of wine
in secondary fermenters that I want to keep cool over the summer. There
is nowhere in my house that really stay consistently cool over the
summer, I was wondering if anyone else lived with a similar situation
and had found a good solution of any kind?

I thought about the crawl space uder my house, that would surely be
cool, but has anyone found whether or not mice eat rubber bungs in that
situation?

All ideas and construction projects gratefully received

What about electric coolers such as freezers? 15 1 gallon containers
in a freezer would fit quiet nicely.

You could buy a ranco temperature controller from ebay for 50$, wire it
up with an extension cord, and set the freezer temp to whatever you'd
want and it would hold

If that's too cold, you could do something like this:

http://home.swbell.net/bufkin/cold_storage_box.htm

I had somewhat the same problem in Reno, NV, except that I didn't have
the luxury of a crawlspace. I bought a portable air conditioner to cool
an extra room where I had placed my two half-barrels. The air
conditioner vented out of the window, and I sealed the doorway to
prevent drafts. The air conditioner is on wheels and I have to empty a
water reservoir every week, but it's been a champ--no problems--and I
run it every day during summer.

snpm wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I live in Arizona, and have around fifteen one gallon batches of wine
> in secondary fermenters that I want to keep cool over the summer. There
> is nowhere in my house that really stay consistently cool over the
> summer, I was wondering if anyone else lived with a similar situation
> and had found a good solution of any kind?
>
> I thought about the crawl space uder my house, that would surely be
> cool, but has anyone found whether or not mice eat rubber bungs in that
> situation?
>
> All ideas and construction projects gratefully received

You and me both. I live in Central Texas. Nobody has basements here,
and it gets quite hot in the summer. I still haven't found a suitable
solution for storing a few hundred bottles. For the time being, I
bought two used refrigerators and I rigged them with air conditioner
thermostats.

I, too, live in a home (Georgia) with a crawlspace and no basement. I
regularly store full carboys and always have bottled wine with no problems
on the bungs except noticing that slugs like to come in and eat paper tags
and labels on bottles. I've since resorted to aluminum tags with marker to
ID carboys. Fortunately, I had no problem with slugs trying to eat the ends
of my corks where my bottles wines are identified.

Temperature is warmer than I want but since I cannot dedicate a room in the
house and the garage regularly goes up to 100F in the summer, it's better
than nothing!

"snpm" > wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I live in Arizona, and have around fifteen one gallon batches of wine
> in secondary fermenters that I want to keep cool over the summer. There
> is nowhere in my house that really stay consistently cool over the
> summer, I was wondering if anyone else lived with a similar situation
> and had found a good solution of any kind?
>
> I thought about the crawl space uder my house, that would surely be
> cool, but has anyone found whether or not mice eat rubber bungs in that
> situation?
>
> All ideas and construction projects gratefully received
>