Cool Storage Location Ideas Please

Apr 26, 2006 4 Replies

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:

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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!

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