hello Brewers and lab nerds today I'm going to show you how to make an incubation chamber you want to use this if you have made petri dishes or slants and you want to have a place where you can control the temperature and dry out the moisture that has collected on the inside surface so that's one time another time would be if you make an a yeast starter and you want to have very accurate control of the temperature to maximize the yeast that you create in your starter so here is basically what I've done you just take a cooler like this one and you need to buy on top of that a temperature controller this one is called STC 1000 and it's very cheap easy to wire up then I just got an extension cord that because here just runs to the wall and I cut the end off of that one and wired it up you can look at the inside here so that it's controlling turning on and off a lamp on the inside the temperature probe front goes from the controller into a test tube that I have sitting over here with just water that way you don't have great fluctuations in the temperature next to the the test tube that has the probe in it you can see the test tubes the slants from the previous videos as well as the agar plates sitting on the side here what you will also notice is that I have to just regular glasses here one says cider and one says wit and what I use those for is to do what's called a forced fermentation to see how far I can expect a beer to end up what the final gravity is going to be essentially under ideal conditions so every time I make work to make a beer I take one sample and I put it into the fermentation or well in this case it would be a fermentation chamber but it's and just really a way to control the temperature make it really hot around 29 or 30 degrees Celsius and that way getting the yeast to do maximum work and dry out the work to the maximum and it would also go a lot faster than it does in the main fermenter you can even pitch more yeast into these just to see how low you can make it go but anyway that's the entire setup again temperature controller here goes into the SDC wiring goes into the SDC 1000 the heating element is the only part that's hooked up goes to a light bulb the cooling obviously you don't need it because it's gonna be above room temperature at all times so you only need to heat temperature controller over here to just a test tube with water and that's it please check out the links below to see the wiring diagram for the SCC 1000 and please subscribe to the channel if you want to see more videos on lab procedures and other brewery procedures thanks Cheers