I have a keezer that I'll up the temperature on and use for temp control for fermentation. Not a big deal at all.
But I was wondering if at times I could skip that step from time to time. The room I ferment in is ~68F this time of year. I usually chill to ~65, pitch, and then put it into the keezer set to whatever temp I need.
Current batch is using US-05 and I set the controller to 68. Once fermentation kicks off, it'll get up to 71 pretty fast, and then my controller will kick in and keep it in that 68-71 window.
I have no idea how high it would go without the temp control.
I have heard US-05 will throw off more esters at lower temps, but fermentis says it's working range goes up to 82 (!). Seems high to me, and I'm wondering what would happen at those temps?
I enjoy Saison and plan to do some once things heat up, but I feel like it's too low right now to get the esters I enjoy out of Saison yeast, and I don't have any way of heating for something like a kviet yeast that enjoys high temperatures as well.
Most ale yeasts seem to like a pretty narrow window. I know a lot of people say US-05 is the same as wlp001 and wyeast 1056, but they have much narrower windows for temperature.
I've looked around for info on us-05 at the higher end of its listed range, but most info I'm finding is about the lower end. Any insights or suggestions would be great.
But I was wondering if at times I could skip that step from time to time. The room I ferment in is ~68F this time of year. I usually chill to ~65, pitch, and then put it into the keezer set to whatever temp I need.
Current batch is using US-05 and I set the controller to 68. Once fermentation kicks off, it'll get up to 71 pretty fast, and then my controller will kick in and keep it in that 68-71 window.
I have no idea how high it would go without the temp control.
I have heard US-05 will throw off more esters at lower temps, but fermentis says it's working range goes up to 82 (!). Seems high to me, and I'm wondering what would happen at those temps?
I enjoy Saison and plan to do some once things heat up, but I feel like it's too low right now to get the esters I enjoy out of Saison yeast, and I don't have any way of heating for something like a kviet yeast that enjoys high temperatures as well.
Most ale yeasts seem to like a pretty narrow window. I know a lot of people say US-05 is the same as wlp001 and wyeast 1056, but they have much narrower windows for temperature.
I've looked around for info on us-05 at the higher end of its listed range, but most info I'm finding is about the lower end. Any insights or suggestions would be great.