bonzombiekitty
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With coming winter upon us, no place in my house stays above 70 degrees. We're cheap bastards and keep the thermostat at no higher than 65. We don't even have the heat on at the moment and are waiting as long as we can until we turn it on. My basement stays a pretty constant temp at 65 or a little lower. After getting a FG (the first one I checked, my first batch I did no gravity measurements on) that seemed high, and I'm a bit concerned my yeasties are stopping before they're done.
I haven't had a problem with fermentation starting - it's happily going within less than 12 hours (pitch at 8PM, when I get up at 6AM things are happily bubbling away). I'm hoping a little shake of the fermenter now and then will keep the yeast going, I'm also hoping that once the heat gets turned on the that the heater will give the basement a couple degree boost in temp.
My other hope is that switching to safale S-04 will work better than the yeasts I used before (don't recall what they were but they weren't safale).
But anybody have a decently inexpensive idea on how to warm things up? I've seen suggestions for a reptile aquarium heater, but I'm concerned that will get things too warm, and a warm water bath isn't really practical since I don't have a sink in the basement.
I haven't had a problem with fermentation starting - it's happily going within less than 12 hours (pitch at 8PM, when I get up at 6AM things are happily bubbling away). I'm hoping a little shake of the fermenter now and then will keep the yeast going, I'm also hoping that once the heat gets turned on the that the heater will give the basement a couple degree boost in temp.
My other hope is that switching to safale S-04 will work better than the yeasts I used before (don't recall what they were but they weren't safale).
But anybody have a decently inexpensive idea on how to warm things up? I've seen suggestions for a reptile aquarium heater, but I'm concerned that will get things too warm, and a warm water bath isn't really practical since I don't have a sink in the basement.