Saturday was about 110* outside and go figure it was on a planned brewday. Went ahead and brewed and decided I would try putting my bucket inside a cooler with some water/ice.
How much water is everyone using in their cooler? I can only put about 4" of water before it starts coming into contact w/ my thermometer on the bucket. And unfortunately, the first day my temps were up to 75*. On sunday I got it down to 68*. I was hoping it would drop more overnight but this morning I saw that it was back up to 75* So before leaving for work I dumped a bunch of ice in the cooler along with a frozen water bottle.
This is annoying since it's my first time using Nottingham and I was hoping to have a nice cooler fermentation so I could get a good idea of that taste, but now I'm worried I've pretty much screwed myself.
I've got one more planned brewday this upcoming weekend and if I can't get the temps figured out then it will probably by last brewday for rest of the summer. Really sucks.
How much water is everyone using in their cooler? I can only put about 4" of water before it starts coming into contact w/ my thermometer on the bucket. And unfortunately, the first day my temps were up to 75*. On sunday I got it down to 68*. I was hoping it would drop more overnight but this morning I saw that it was back up to 75* So before leaving for work I dumped a bunch of ice in the cooler along with a frozen water bottle.
This is annoying since it's my first time using Nottingham and I was hoping to have a nice cooler fermentation so I could get a good idea of that taste, but now I'm worried I've pretty much screwed myself.
I've got one more planned brewday this upcoming weekend and if I can't get the temps figured out then it will probably by last brewday for rest of the summer. Really sucks.