Thinking ahead of possibly going all grain w a stand and have two questions.
I’ve heard of a person or two who ferments in the kettle, but they drain the wort off the trub into another container - clean and sanitize the kettle - then put the wort back. Those glass front wine refrigerators make great fermentation chambers. AmandaK has 3! #jealousy
Yes, those glass front wine coolers are pretty sweet. I took a Better Bottle to Home Depot and tried them out before I bought them.
Interesting. Can you get up to ale temperatures with those without a separate temp controller?
Right now I’m using a 5.0 cu ft chest freezer for my fermentation chamber. It’s a real tight fit, but I can fit a 6.5 gallon bucket and a 4.5 gallon bucket (with airlocks) in it at the same time.
Do you have any issues with mildew when it’s off? Or is it always on!
I have an old dorm fridge that I picked up off of craigslist. It used to be a kegerator. It’s probably from the 70s. Maybe older. It’s about a third the size of a regular fridge.
It just barely fits one of the taller ale pails. It’s slightly too short for the airlock so I cut the bottom of an airlock off, attached some tubing to it and run the tubing into the bottom of another airlock I tape to the side of the bucket. There’s a half shelf I can remove and that will just barely fit a corny keg. Not sure it will fit with the disconnects though. I have it hooked up to a temperature controller. I can get the temperature down to about forty before the internal temperature controller cuts off. So I can ferment lagers but can’t lager down where I need to. I can make drinkable lagers with that set up but they definitely aren’t winning competitions.
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I can fit a 6 gallon Better Bottle + blowoff tube with room to spare. Just be careful bending the freezer plate on the top… you don’t want to puncture it (as I might have done once), resulting in the sad sound of the coolant leaking, rendering the fridge useless.
You can find the fridge on sale, so all-in it may be the best $250 you can spend for maintaining consistent fermentation temps.
No mold/mildew issues.
I run them with dual stage Rancos and Ferm Wraps, so any temp between 38-100 is completely doable. I lager in one of my two freezers in kegs. Much easier and frees up space in the wine coolers.
I really don’t understand the doggin on wine coolers. If they didn’t work (and work extremely well), I wouldn’t have 3 of them.
You might consider a small chest freezer. Fridge-wise the sanyo 4912 fits a large fermenter quite well- and there are many models just like it under different names and manufacturer. Two kegs also fit nicely. 
Ha ha! I did that with my new conical. Walked into Sears to test it in the upright freezers. Yes I got some strange looks.
I did the exact same thing at Lowe’s. No one said a word when I started removing the shelves from the freezer… Some people looked at me like I was bringing a bomb into the store and gave me a wide berth.
Ya but tell them about the looks you got when you brought it into Victoria’s Secret.
I can’t imagine that many people walk into Lowe’s with a 20-40 gallon stainless conical on a cart. I bet you were quite the site! 
Ok, that’s pretty funny.