Operation:
The upper zone has a range between 12-20°C and the lower zone has a range between 5-12°C.
The most common setting for the bottom part is 6°C – as cold air is “heavier” than warm air, the bottom of the cabinet will be at a temperature of around 4-5°C (so perfect for light lagers) and for the upper part 15° C (so perfect for imperial stouts, Belgian strong ales and Doppelbocks).
Since this cabinet has no separation between the zones, this also means that the two zones meet exactly in the middle. In that area the temperature will be around 12° C (so perfect for Belgian ales, sour ales, Bocks, English bitters and milds, Scottish ales). Between the bottom shelves and the middle shelves you have a temperature between 5-9°C (so perfect – below – for Czech and German Pilsners, Munich Helles, wheat beers and – above – for American pale ales, porters, PAs, most stout).
Because there is no separation between the two zones - so you are flexible - we cannot give you information about the number per "zone". That is entirely according to your wishes. You make your own choice with the settings. For example, if you want your beer to be colder at the top, set the bottom zone a little colder. If you want your beer to be less cold, do the opposite.
Such an operation gives you much more flexibility because you have all types of temperatures and it is more efficient for storing all types of beer. You can also store your special beer glasses in it (so that even the glasses have the right temperature!)
planks:
The interior of the beer climate cabinet is equipped with wooden shelves. We deliberately chose this because wood is a natural product, just like the beer that is stored in the climate chamber. With wood, no two pieces are the same and that causes color differences. However, this also gives the certain “roughness” that we find appropriate for the product.
Why do we recommend installing the specified number of shelves and not more or less per cabinet? You don't want to remove many bottles before you find the right one. That is why many customers have equipped our beer climate cabinets with the proposed configuration.
Of course you can install more shelves, but... note the following: the more shelves, the less capacity and you are only looking at wood (planks) instead of the bottles
We also think that you should be able to store all types of bottles in the cabinet and that is why the proposed configuration is the best. If you would like to have additional shelves (or other accessories) in the future, you can purchase them from us afterwards.
For example, if you want to place larger beer bottles on the bottom, you can place the neck of the bottles on the compressor housing and place the bottom against the raised edge (of the climate chamber), so that you immediately have a “display” made of it. You can then place other bottles across behind these slanted bottles to make optimal use of the capacity.
There are "slots" in the shelves to ensure that there is sufficient airflow, but beer bottles, cans, bottles, etc. can simply be placed on them. If, given the diameter of the bottle, at some point after the bottles have been placed side by side, a bottle is not completely on the shelf, you can always place an additional plate on the shelf (it is impossible for a bottle to those cracks will “fall”).
That plate does not have to be thick at all and can be half the size of the existing plank. If you want to provide the entire shelf with an extra plate, we recommend that you make a few holes in it for air circulation. We had these plates in the past, but they were no longer in demand recently, so we removed them from the range. People wanted to do it themselves or determine the implementation themselves - (matching) beer mats are also sometimes used.
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