My wife and parents got me a brew kit for an early birthday present. I when to brew up my first extract batch and started looking into information on how to do it. I live in a hot area and my house is swamp cooled. I was originally worried about the house being to hot for brewing because the recipe says to store under 75 and don't let it get under 60. Well my house has never yet got over 75 degrees so I went room to room with my meat thermometer for the coolest place in the house. I found a closet that never got over 73. So I brewed up my batch put it in the bucket and put it in the closet. What I didn't realize is that when it started to ferment the temp was going to rise. The thermometer on the side of the bucket says its now at 81. Now Im getting worried. I put it in a larger bucket of water and put a wet tee shirt over it with a fan. Its not getting much cooler probably because my house is already to humid. My question is how bad will it taste and how hot is to hot? If it does cool back down will that spike in temperature have very ill effects?
Thanks for any help or info.
T
Thanks for any help or info.
T