Hello from Buffalo NY!

[ypsetihw]

I everyone, new to brewing and this forum. Decided to join after much reading of the archives here. Very helpful!

I just bottled my first batch a couple days ago, started with a partial mash English IPA recipe. It finished a little early, only 4 days, but the gravity was right so I bottled it. Hope it turns out well, can't wait to start tweaking my own recipes.

 

[Hex]

Welcome to the madness! Half my family lives in that town and Tonawanda! The rest of us enjoy sunny California!
I use 21 days at 64-68*f for that style, let us know how it turns out...

 

[ypsetihw]

Yeah I'm aging it around 72 because that's the coolest dark spot I have, how are you all getting it down into the 60s? I dont have a basement or swamp cooler and the fridge is obviously too cold, ideas?

 

[gestalt162]

Welcome from a fellow Buffalonian (technically a Town of Tonawandan)! Hope you're taking the heat well, my currently fermenting beer is trying its best to keep its composure. I live in a duplex that doesn't have any central cooling, so I jury-rigged a swamp cooler to bring the temp down to 73-75 deg.

Since your beer is already bottled, you should be fine keeping it at 72.

 

[Hex]

Summer brewing is difficult here too (Sacramento). I have used frozen one and two liter bottles in a water bath around a carboy. take temperature readings of the water bath and cycle them from freezer. Get at least 4 frozen before you pitch. First 4 days are the most critical.

 

[ypsetihw]

Well unfortunately I can't go tying up the sink for 5 days with floating ice bottles . . .

Wonder if I can find an old fridge for cheap and set it on uber low, maybe even rig my own thermo

 

[killian]

you could pickup a Rubbermaid tote, fill it 1/2 way or so with water and use ice, or frozen water bottles.

 

[gestalt162]

That's what I did, lowered the temp about 5-10 degrees below ambient, even with strong fermentation. Temp is still really high (using California Lager yeast), but not crazy.

 

[abrew2u]

Hello from a fellow buffalo native actually Amherst,just use a swamp cooler freeze bottles of water and use those as ice packs replace one or 2 every 12 hrs or so. Hope that helps

 

[buffalobrewer]

before I converted a freezer I used the frozen water bottles too.

If you want to meet some other home brewers stop by Gene McCarthy's 3rd monday of the month @ 7:30 for the Sultans meeting. Bring some samples for tasting!