pegasus_brew
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Title pretty much says it all. Last Thursday I pulled a batch out of my fermentation chamber to bottle and left the probe attached to the carboy, so my stc-1000 kept the freezer on all night.
I made a few mistakes here, the first of which is that I shouldn't have been bottling so late at night, because I ordinarily wouldn't leave the clean up for the next day. If I had taken the time to clean up, I would have noticed the probe still attached to the carboy and moved it. I also wouldn't have usually been keeping the Sour Blonde or the other beer (Prairie Artisan 'Merica clone) in the ferm chamber, but our AC was broken for a few days, so I moved them into the chamber to get them out of the 90 degree temperatures that room was experiencing. Lessons learned, I guess.
I thawed them both out and pulled samples and they're both tasting fine which is a huge relief. Now I'm just wondering if I'm ok to repitch the yeast. The sour blonde was a gallon that I pulled from a batch of clean Blonde just to keep the Bug County I've been sitting on going while I decided what else I wanted to do with it. Now I'm getting ready to brew a Flanders Red that I'd like those bugs for. Not the end of the world if I had to buy more, but we all know that the ECY stuff isn't exactly easy to get your hands on. Anyone else ever make this very stupid mistake?
I made a few mistakes here, the first of which is that I shouldn't have been bottling so late at night, because I ordinarily wouldn't leave the clean up for the next day. If I had taken the time to clean up, I would have noticed the probe still attached to the carboy and moved it. I also wouldn't have usually been keeping the Sour Blonde or the other beer (Prairie Artisan 'Merica clone) in the ferm chamber, but our AC was broken for a few days, so I moved them into the chamber to get them out of the 90 degree temperatures that room was experiencing. Lessons learned, I guess.
I thawed them both out and pulled samples and they're both tasting fine which is a huge relief. Now I'm just wondering if I'm ok to repitch the yeast. The sour blonde was a gallon that I pulled from a batch of clean Blonde just to keep the Bug County I've been sitting on going while I decided what else I wanted to do with it. Now I'm getting ready to brew a Flanders Red that I'd like those bugs for. Not the end of the world if I had to buy more, but we all know that the ECY stuff isn't exactly easy to get your hands on. Anyone else ever make this very stupid mistake?