rohan

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hi guys.

is it a good idea to keep your fermenter out of the sunlight??
no direct sunlight, it is just coming through a window in the garage. but can it affect the beer??

thanks... rohan.

JacktheKnife

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Howdy,

Keep your ferminting wort in as dark of a place as you can find.

I use my brewery, {it used to be a kitchen closet.}
The door shuts, and there is two other doors which shut,
shutting off the hall that the pantry is in.
and it is about as dark of a place as there is.

Yeah, the yeast don't like light.


Later man

Knife

rohan

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ok thanks knife..

i put a heavy sheet around it so hope it will be ok, thanks for your help. i will make up a cabnet for it...

thanks again

Eskram

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I have mine in a spare bedroom, with a heavy blanket covering the window. Besides cutting light out, it seems to keep the room about 10 degrees cooler than the other rooms. I also keep the carboys in plastic tubs with the lids on.

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you should be fine then... i often get lazy and just leave it in the living room with a blanket/comforter wrapped around it to keep the light away without any off (skunky/light struck) flavors

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Since my last few brews have all been lagered, I keep the carboys in the fridge.

Can't stop wondering though? Does the light in the fridge really go out when I close the door? -as he tries to peak into the door to see if it is out-

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bikebryan

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Even if the fridge light syated on, you would be OK. It's sunlight, and flourescents, that skunk beer, not incandesents which is what refrigerators have.

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Maybe should have added a on my last post. Was meant as a joke. Sort of like "if a tree falls in the forest and there's noone there to hear does it make a sound?" type question.

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that will teach you to try and wax philosophical around here.

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Are the yeast dead or alive when they're in the carboy?

It's quantum theory of superposition. Schroedinger's Yeast, if you will.

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