Hello All,
I currently have a Belgian Dubbel fermenting in a glass carboy that is sitting in my brew kettle that is filled with very, very cold water. The sticky thermometer on the side of my carboy says its like 38 degrees.
I posted the pics to my dropbox.... I hope this works. Here is the link.
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/jsaixqasqbp13gs/AAD06gWDd-J8xpHVAgl2E_x9a
I'm wondering if anyone has done this before? I created a 2 liter starter that I kept out for 2 days because the Wyeast 1214 smack pack wouldn't inflate after 3 hours and it took forever for the yeast to come back to life. I then put it in the fridge on the night of the second day and took it back out on the third (brew) day to come back to room temperature before pitching it.
After I chilled my wort I put it in my carboy at 80 degrees, then cleaned my kettle, put my carboy in my kettle in my basement, threw in a bunch of cold water, ice packs and let it cool down further knowing this yeast gets a lot of banana flavor at high temps. After a bit, I pitched the yeast, took an OG reading of 1.060 at 76 degrees. I knew that was still a bit warm, so I put some more ice in it.
The next day I looked at my beer to see how it was doing and it's fermenting really nice. I can see all the little yeast floating around and doing their thing. But I noticed the temperature on the strip was crazy low. I know it's sitting in a cold water bath, so it's picking up that water temp mostly (right), but I'm not totally sure what temperature the beer is at. I'm wondering what's going to happen to this beer with this yeast fermenting so low. Any ideas?
I currently have a Belgian Dubbel fermenting in a glass carboy that is sitting in my brew kettle that is filled with very, very cold water. The sticky thermometer on the side of my carboy says its like 38 degrees.
I posted the pics to my dropbox.... I hope this works. Here is the link.
https://www.dropbox.com/sc/jsaixqasqbp13gs/AAD06gWDd-J8xpHVAgl2E_x9a
I'm wondering if anyone has done this before? I created a 2 liter starter that I kept out for 2 days because the Wyeast 1214 smack pack wouldn't inflate after 3 hours and it took forever for the yeast to come back to life. I then put it in the fridge on the night of the second day and took it back out on the third (brew) day to come back to room temperature before pitching it.
After I chilled my wort I put it in my carboy at 80 degrees, then cleaned my kettle, put my carboy in my kettle in my basement, threw in a bunch of cold water, ice packs and let it cool down further knowing this yeast gets a lot of banana flavor at high temps. After a bit, I pitched the yeast, took an OG reading of 1.060 at 76 degrees. I knew that was still a bit warm, so I put some more ice in it.
The next day I looked at my beer to see how it was doing and it's fermenting really nice. I can see all the little yeast floating around and doing their thing. But I noticed the temperature on the strip was crazy low. I know it's sitting in a cold water bath, so it's picking up that water temp mostly (right), but I'm not totally sure what temperature the beer is at. I'm wondering what's going to happen to this beer with this yeast fermenting so low. Any ideas?