Amberlover14
New Member
Hey guys, new to the forum and pretty new to brewing itself and I think I may have screwed up my 2nd batch, heres the story.
I brewed up a batch of Nut Brown Ale, took a OG reading, added my dry yeast and put my carboy in a small room. Now the issue I had with the first batch I made was with keeping the fermentor at a steady temp without running up the electric bill. This time around I tried using a small space heater to keep the beer around a steady 70 degrees F. However I checked the fermentor the next day and the heat was on wayyy too high, reaching about 85 degrees. The kraussen had reached up to the airlock ( no overflow but very close) so I lowered the heat and it has been around a steady 70 degrees since then.
My problem: I noticed the rising kraussen and high temperatures about 18 hours after I began fermenting the brew. A day after I adjusted the temp to a steady 70, the brew had almost completely stopped looking active in the liquid. The airlock was still perculating once every 15 seconds or so, but the brew itself looks dead. I am wondering if I killed this batch with the high heat? The kraussen is all above the 5 gallon mark (none on the surface of the liquid) and the liquid in my carboy isnt bubbling or anything, I brewed the batch on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning I noticed the extreme heat, did I kill my baby?
I brewed up a batch of Nut Brown Ale, took a OG reading, added my dry yeast and put my carboy in a small room. Now the issue I had with the first batch I made was with keeping the fermentor at a steady temp without running up the electric bill. This time around I tried using a small space heater to keep the beer around a steady 70 degrees F. However I checked the fermentor the next day and the heat was on wayyy too high, reaching about 85 degrees. The kraussen had reached up to the airlock ( no overflow but very close) so I lowered the heat and it has been around a steady 70 degrees since then.
My problem: I noticed the rising kraussen and high temperatures about 18 hours after I began fermenting the brew. A day after I adjusted the temp to a steady 70, the brew had almost completely stopped looking active in the liquid. The airlock was still perculating once every 15 seconds or so, but the brew itself looks dead. I am wondering if I killed this batch with the high heat? The kraussen is all above the 5 gallon mark (none on the surface of the liquid) and the liquid in my carboy isnt bubbling or anything, I brewed the batch on Sunday afternoon and Monday morning I noticed the extreme heat, did I kill my baby?