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I have been brewing for a little over a year and I don't have an all grain system yet and I don't keg my beer, yet. I got a great deal on a 21.7 cu. ft. chest freezer that eventually will become my kegerator. For this summer I want to use it for fermentation control as I start to build a collar and acquire the parts to make a nice kegerator. My question is this, should I just make it a kegerator? I've seen chest freezers this size that have been converted to half a kegerator and half fermentation chamber. This seems ideal but like it might be a better idea than anything that functions that well. Should I even consider trying to split the chest freezer into two different purposes and if so, what temp controller should I buy? If this is a bad idea, I'd like to hear that line reasoning as well. Thanks in advance.

The coils go all the way around a chest freezer. Dividing it would not effect the cooling of one side that I can figure out.
I would make the mother of all kegorators. Go big or go home!
This is a 18.8

Here's what I did to dispense from, and ferment in, the same chest freezer:



Each carboy heater has it's own temp controller. Using this setup, you could ferment ales and lagers simultaneously while dispensing at whatever temperature you like.

I do the same thing as Beerpal, but without the nice carboy parkas.

Beer_pal, what volume is that freezer? And what kind of dimensions is it on the outside?