NHhomebrewer
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Today was my first attempt at a brew day. After the nightmare boil over situation playing itself out the boil was over. I put the pot in the sink on a bed of ice and used my homemade wort chiller. The good news is I got the wort temp from 185 degrees to 80 in around 14 min. The bad news is, when I added the wort to the fermenter and added my additional cold water my temperature was around 54 degrees. I was close on time and had to get the yeast in. I pitched the yeast, stirred it around a bit and closed it up. Do you think an ale yeast will still work properly at 54 degrees? I also decided to scrap the idea of a second fermentation for this batch. The IPA kit says only 7 days in fermenter before bottling. I was thinking more like 3 weeks then bottled for 3 weeks. Should I follow the kit or my preconceived idea.? Any help would be great. Thanks again