thedeboers
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My husband and I are on our third homebrew batch and having an issue, that I think is due to the cold.
We're making a Belgian Double, using the Ballast point recipe, and visible fermentation took about a week to begin and went for two weeks even though the temp dropped to close to sixty for a while and then below. After two weeks, with no visible fermentation for 24 hours or so, and a temp of 58 we took a specific gravity reading and it was 1.031. The OG was 1.044 so this seemed wrong to us.
The yeast we are using is WL trappist ale yeast which according to their website does best at 65-72 degrees so we figured we had it too cold for the last week. For the past 48 hours we have warmed it up and shook it a few times and its still not doing much. A few bubbles right after we shake it, that's it.
Did we kill this yeast? Is it possible to wake it up through heating shaking? Will it just take another couple of weeks?
Also wee live in Japan and have pretty terrible insulation and high energy costs so its cold in our house - any non electric ideas to warm it up this beer would be really appreciated too!
We're making a Belgian Double, using the Ballast point recipe, and visible fermentation took about a week to begin and went for two weeks even though the temp dropped to close to sixty for a while and then below. After two weeks, with no visible fermentation for 24 hours or so, and a temp of 58 we took a specific gravity reading and it was 1.031. The OG was 1.044 so this seemed wrong to us.
The yeast we are using is WL trappist ale yeast which according to their website does best at 65-72 degrees so we figured we had it too cold for the last week. For the past 48 hours we have warmed it up and shook it a few times and its still not doing much. A few bubbles right after we shake it, that's it.
Did we kill this yeast? Is it possible to wake it up through heating shaking? Will it just take another couple of weeks?
Also wee live in Japan and have pretty terrible insulation and high energy costs so its cold in our house - any non electric ideas to warm it up this beer would be really appreciated too!