AirRageous
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I just started my first batch (brown ale) yesterday and have it in an Ale Pail for primary fermentation.
The problem is that I live in an adobe (earthen bricks) house in New Mexico that is heated by passive solar and a wood stove. The house works great but has daily temperature fluctuations of up to 20 degrees. This time of year the outside temp range is 20s in the early morning to 60s in the afternoon. The temp inside the house ranges from 55 in the morning to 75 in the afternoon. In the summer the range is 70s to 100s outside and 60s to 80s inside. I use an evaporative cooler in the summer.
I have the fermenter in the most temperature stable room in the house but for the first day that room temp ranged from 63 to 74. I don't have a thermometer in or on the fermenter so I don't know how that is doing inside. I guess I will need to do that.
Is this going to be a problem? I do have bubbles through the airlock this morning after 18 hours at the rate of about one every 3 seconds at 63 degrees F.
The problem is that I live in an adobe (earthen bricks) house in New Mexico that is heated by passive solar and a wood stove. The house works great but has daily temperature fluctuations of up to 20 degrees. This time of year the outside temp range is 20s in the early morning to 60s in the afternoon. The temp inside the house ranges from 55 in the morning to 75 in the afternoon. In the summer the range is 70s to 100s outside and 60s to 80s inside. I use an evaporative cooler in the summer.
I have the fermenter in the most temperature stable room in the house but for the first day that room temp ranged from 63 to 74. I don't have a thermometer in or on the fermenter so I don't know how that is doing inside. I guess I will need to do that.
Is this going to be a problem? I do have bubbles through the airlock this morning after 18 hours at the rate of about one every 3 seconds at 63 degrees F.