TimBilly
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Yea, so a few weeks ago when I made my IPA, after I pitched my yeast, I found out why cooling the wort was important. By some miracle, I didn't kill the yeast pitching it dry over 100 degrees, and the IPA so far seems really good after only 3 days of bottle conditioning.
So this time (Russian Imperial Stout kit plus lots more hops and flaked barley for body) instead of adding room temperature water to the hot wort, I put three 7 lb. bags of ice in the fermenter and poured the hot wort directly in. Evidently, 3 bags of (sub 32 deg.) ice + 200 degree wort = something like 40 degree wort with ice cubes floating in it.
So now I have icy wort. What should I do with the yeast (already started in a separate 80 deg bowl of water)? Can I just throw it in and it will wake up when the fermenter gets to 65 degrees? Or will that kill it?
Should I keep the fermenter cold and try to make Russian Imperial Lager instead?
For now, the yeast mix is in a separate sealed container in the fridge cooling down. The wort is up to 52 degrees based on the sticky-thermometer strip, but there are definitely still ice cubes.
I'm leaning towards just pitching it and seeing if I get bubbles tomorrow.
So this time (Russian Imperial Stout kit plus lots more hops and flaked barley for body) instead of adding room temperature water to the hot wort, I put three 7 lb. bags of ice in the fermenter and poured the hot wort directly in. Evidently, 3 bags of (sub 32 deg.) ice + 200 degree wort = something like 40 degree wort with ice cubes floating in it.
So now I have icy wort. What should I do with the yeast (already started in a separate 80 deg bowl of water)? Can I just throw it in and it will wake up when the fermenter gets to 65 degrees? Or will that kill it?
Should I keep the fermenter cold and try to make Russian Imperial Lager instead?
For now, the yeast mix is in a separate sealed container in the fridge cooling down. The wort is up to 52 degrees based on the sticky-thermometer strip, but there are definitely still ice cubes.
I'm leaning towards just pitching it and seeing if I get bubbles tomorrow.