Here's my dilemma. I live in a hot, third floor New York City apartment. I own a 5 cf chest freezer that I use for fermenting/aging. It doesn't hold an awful lot. Right now, I have 40 12-oz bottles that are carbing (about 1.5 weeks in, another 1.5 to go.) I would like to brew tomorrow, but in order to make room for a carboy, the bottles would have to go. It's obviously much more important for my fermenting beer to be stored in there as the ambient temp in my apartment is over 80.
My question is would it hurt my conditioning beer to be pulled out of the cooler for a few weeks and stored in my hot apartment? If that is bad, would it be better to try and find room in my fridge, or would the cold temps basically halt the carbing process?
My question is would it hurt my conditioning beer to be pulled out of the cooler for a few weeks and stored in my hot apartment? If that is bad, would it be better to try and find room in my fridge, or would the cold temps basically halt the carbing process?