Hutch
New Member
Hi All
New to the wonderful world of homebrew and have femented one batch (Coopers Pale Ale) which is conditioning in the bottles and got another batch off and running in the mean time (Coopers Canadian Blonde). However i'm having a bit of troble with this batch and keeping it warm. I'm in southern Australia and average day temperature is about 15 degrees celcius and at night can drop below 0 degrees celcius. I have the fementer in a wood cupboard, with a heat pad and blanket round it but so far i can't stabalise the temperature.
The batch startes off at about 24 degrees but then once fermentation has started it increses up to 30 degrees and obviously its too hot so i play around with the heat pad and blanket but it dropped to 18 degrees celcius. I guess my question is wheather the temperature fluctuations will hurt the brew. I'm trying to get it stable, playing around with different conbinations of warming but is a bit of a worry. Any suggestions will be greatly appriciated.
Thanks
Hutch
New to the wonderful world of homebrew and have femented one batch (Coopers Pale Ale) which is conditioning in the bottles and got another batch off and running in the mean time (Coopers Canadian Blonde). However i'm having a bit of troble with this batch and keeping it warm. I'm in southern Australia and average day temperature is about 15 degrees celcius and at night can drop below 0 degrees celcius. I have the fementer in a wood cupboard, with a heat pad and blanket round it but so far i can't stabalise the temperature.
The batch startes off at about 24 degrees but then once fermentation has started it increses up to 30 degrees and obviously its too hot so i play around with the heat pad and blanket but it dropped to 18 degrees celcius. I guess my question is wheather the temperature fluctuations will hurt the brew. I'm trying to get it stable, playing around with different conbinations of warming but is a bit of a worry. Any suggestions will be greatly appriciated.
Thanks
Hutch