Prymal
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Is cold crashing at 21* too cold? Also if I am going that low can I get by only crashing for 1 day or should I still let it chill for a couple days before bottling.
Cold crashing at 21*
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Be careful. I did a cold crash 36 hour cold crash in my minifridge at the coldest setting sans a temperature controller and I ended up with an exploded growler (sanitizer inside froze and broke the growler) and 5 gallons of pumpkin beer slush. I'd keep the temp controller just above freezing to be safe.
Prymal
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Ambient temp tonight in my unfinished bonus room above the garage. The beer is in a 6 gallon better bottle. It has been there for about 6 hours. Maybe I'll pull it inside before I go to bed.
Prymal
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I pulled the fermenter inside. I could see that a significant amount of yeast had come out of suspension so I'll probably put the fermenter back outside tomorrow to clean things up a bit more then bottle on Tuesday before I head off to work. Thanks for the quick reply everyone I would have hated to end up with frozen beer.
Prymal
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Well 6 hours at 25-21* produces as clean of a beer as I have seen and when I woke up this morning the fermenter was still cooler then the houses ambient temp.
