Paintchips37
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So I brewed my second beer a double IPA on Feb 21. Everything was going good and I kept a steady temperature of about 65 degrees for the first week. On the 28th of Feb my wife and I went on vacation for a week. When we got home (6 March) our house was freezing. The power had gone out and we don't know for how long. Only that it turned on about 7 hours before we got home. The outside temp had been in mid 20s for the week and our temp was off for atleast a day to be so cold.
My primary bucket was very cold and was not reading any temp on the liquid crystal thermomter. It is now back into the mid 60's which took about 2 days. I don't have anyway to control the temp of the beer except to control the ambient temperature of the room.
I had planned on keeping it in the primary bucket for 3 weeks and then adding dry hops for another week (I don't have a secondary).
Any suggestions on what I should do?
**I tried searching this topic before asking but I couldn't find anything. I think its that I don't know the words to use to search this subject.
My primary bucket was very cold and was not reading any temp on the liquid crystal thermomter. It is now back into the mid 60's which took about 2 days. I don't have anyway to control the temp of the beer except to control the ambient temperature of the room.
I had planned on keeping it in the primary bucket for 3 weeks and then adding dry hops for another week (I don't have a secondary).
Any suggestions on what I should do?
**I tried searching this topic before asking but I couldn't find anything. I think its that I don't know the words to use to search this subject.