Howdy all.
I haven't been on here in years. I decided to pick up home brewing again after 4-5 years.
This is only my 7th brew or so, and first in years so I was a bit rusty and made some mistakes. One was burning the malt extract syrup on the bottom of the kettle at 45 mins, which I noticed after I poured the wort.
I did a Newcastle clone with partial grains, and used S-04. I pitched too hot, my thermomteter was reading high so I eyeballed it and pitched around 80-90 F degrees I think. I let the fermentor kick off indoors and then moved it to the garage after 4 hours.
Garage stays a constant 46-50 F in winter. It is insulated and heated but I don't turn the heat on unless it gets real cold outside. I wrapped the bucket in blankets and it was at 66 F for the first 24 hours, with constant airlock activity every second.
Today is day 4 and the temp on the fermentor has settled to about 60 F and airlock activity has slowed to about every 10-15 seconds or so.
At some point do I need to bring it back inside? House is 67-68 F. I have read that contrary to the Safale instructions (which say minimum temp is 64F), S-04 can go down to around 60.
Also, since I pitched hot and it settled from the 80s into the mid 60's before it really took off, am I going to get some bad flavors?
I haven't opened the lid on the bucket yet to see what is going on, but I assume that since it is showing regular bubbles I should be OK.
Thanks!
I haven't been on here in years. I decided to pick up home brewing again after 4-5 years.
This is only my 7th brew or so, and first in years so I was a bit rusty and made some mistakes. One was burning the malt extract syrup on the bottom of the kettle at 45 mins, which I noticed after I poured the wort.
I did a Newcastle clone with partial grains, and used S-04. I pitched too hot, my thermomteter was reading high so I eyeballed it and pitched around 80-90 F degrees I think. I let the fermentor kick off indoors and then moved it to the garage after 4 hours.
Garage stays a constant 46-50 F in winter. It is insulated and heated but I don't turn the heat on unless it gets real cold outside. I wrapped the bucket in blankets and it was at 66 F for the first 24 hours, with constant airlock activity every second.
Today is day 4 and the temp on the fermentor has settled to about 60 F and airlock activity has slowed to about every 10-15 seconds or so.
At some point do I need to bring it back inside? House is 67-68 F. I have read that contrary to the Safale instructions (which say minimum temp is 64F), S-04 can go down to around 60.
Also, since I pitched hot and it settled from the 80s into the mid 60's before it really took off, am I going to get some bad flavors?
I haven't opened the lid on the bucket yet to see what is going on, but I assume that since it is showing regular bubbles I should be OK.
Thanks!