Put in Primary 2 days ago

Brewed my first batch 2 days ago. It was a hefe. How often should the airlock be bubbling?

airlock bubbling is not an indication of anything, so don't worry about how much the airlock is or isn't bubbling.

Awesome! How about air temp?

husker1985 said:

Awesome! How about air temp?

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Air temp is mostly irrelevant, but if it's in the low-mid 60s that's a good place. The important thing is the beer temperature, so a "stick on" thermometer is good to have on it. Then you can monitor the actual beer temperature instead of wondering!

Yooper said:

Air temp is mostly irrelevant, but if it's in the low-mid 60s that's a good place. The important thing is the beer temperature, so a "stick on" thermometer is good to have on it. Then you can monitor the actual beer temperature instead of wondering!

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During vigorous fermentation I noticed that the temp of fermenting wort was higher than the stick on strip. The other day I looked at the strip and it said 64*, I stuck a thermometer in the airlock hole and the temp was 72 so I moved it to my heated garage where the temp was about 60* ambient. After fermentation slowed down, the temp was 2* higher in the fermenter than the strip. So all those batches I thought I was good since the strip read in the upper 60* range, it was really in the low to mid 70s, which might be high for some yeast strains.