douglasbarbin
Well-Known Member
Against my better judgement, I decided to try my luck with a "lite" beer. 2-row barley, fairly high percentage of flaked corn, hopped with Williamette...nothing too unusual. I used dry yeast (Saflager W34/70) for this one, and put it in primary for somewhere between 2 and 3 weeks at 45ºF or so. A little on the cold side, I know, but I have to do it in my beer fridge since I don't have a fermentation chamber. After that, I racked it to secondary, where it has been sitting for 2 weeks and counting. Now, I know that I probably need to do a diacetyl rest before bottling. But I have the following question: is it ok to bottle it and let it sit at room temperature (~70ºF ambient) for a couple of weeks, then put the bottles in the fridge to lager? I figure this would be kind of like a diacetyl rest. Also, I have no idea where I am going to lager all of these bottles, as my fridge won't hold all of them at one time. Ideas/thoughts/suggestions?