Home Brew Heat Heating Belt Pad for Beer Wine Spirits fermenter+ sticker on thermometer

If like me you live in a temperate climate where you can't predict the weather in an hour never mind a week, this is essential to keep the temperature up when you're fermenting. Basically you just wrap it around your fermenting bucket, plug it in and away you go. It seems to keep the temperature in the 26c region if you place it about one third ways up the bucket. The temperature can be adjusted quite simply by moving the belt. To get a higher temp. just move the belt down, and a lower temp. just move it up. Simple but effective. This gives it an advantage over a mat which you can't move to adjust temp. and can only be achieved if you buy one with a variable thermostat which would obviously cost more. It's simple but it works for me and I'd recommend it to anyone fermenting wine. I've no idea about brewing beer so cannot comment about it's effectiveness for that purpose.

I have used to keep my FV warm during winter, especially on days if I am away. Used in conjunction with the hot water tank lagging I have wrapped the FV in and a thermostat controller this works well. It takes round 4 hours to gently warm up a couple of degrees. Without the lagging it does struggle to even maintain a temperature when the ambient is <15, but I don't think that should be expected from such a small element to be fair. It does turn itself on and off perhaps every few minutes so the heating is very gradual which is probably best I suppose!

Got this to up the temperature on the wheat beers I make. I aim for a temp of around 24°C and use a metal fermenter, which probably work better than the plastic or glass ones. I switch it on at night when the room temperature drops to around 18°C and it's still bubbling away at 24° quite happily in the mornings, and that's with it about a quarter of the way down from the top so this must be extremely efficient. 25 watts x 10 hours a night equals not very much!

Arrived very quickly, and is better than my usual heating strap. Using it for the first time and it is so easy to use!! Strong and simple, the lace is a brilliant idea, does what it says on the box!!! Highly recommended

Really easy to use and kept my home brew bucket at the perfect temperature all through the brewing process

This uncontrollable heat belt may be okay for large brew tubs and I can confirm that I have used one before to brew beer in a five gallon tub. I used to place it near the bottom and regulate the temperature of brew by enclosing the tub with a coat and regulate temp by adjusting the zip. This belt provides too much heat for containers of one gallon or less, as you might use for wine or Kombucha making. As for regulating the temperature by placing the belt higher up the jar, I'm not sure about that. Surely that warms the upper section, leaving the lower section cooler. I think heat needs to be applied at or very near the bottom and then convection will even out the temperature throughout the whole brew. Oh, and the self adhesive temperature guage supplied was useless . . . fortunately I had ordered extra from another supplier.

I had a similar product many years ago and so I purchased one when I recently went back to home winemaking, knowing how important a stable temperature can be for a smooth fermentation. This one is wide enough to span two demijohns side by side, so you are left with a fair amount of slack if you're fermenting only one gallon. However, an adjustable cord is provided to stop the excess belt dangling loose. Temperature control is determined by the height on the demijohn at which the belt is placed- there is no separate thermostat or similar temperature control device. You'll need a separate thermometer if you want to determine the exact temperature of the must. No complaints about packaging or delivery - all prompt and to plan.

Only received a few hours ago and already in use! Pleased to see it come with a standard 13 amp plug as not shown in illustration on shopping page As for reviewer (Susan) who warned about potential shortness, it fitted my 40 pint fermentation bucket perfectly, and had a adequate length of electric cable

Engañado ya que no lo puedo enchufar, compra en otro sitio si eres de europa

The photos show what appears to be a temperature regulator but it does not come with one. The photos are very deceiving and perhaps false advertising.

Arrivato con presa estera, non lo restituisco perché ne ho bisogno ma dovrò cambiarci la presa con una italiana

Attention pour les européens il faudra prévoir un adaptateur car c'est une prise uk ! aussinon ca a l'air cali .