Can't get cold crash below 40F

[arnobg]

Cold crashing my primary bucket in my main house refrigerator but it won't drop below 40F now, it is on the coldest setting. Is this going to even do anything? Unfortunately I put gelatin finings in last night assuming it would make it to the lower 30's and it just isn't for some reason.

If a moderator could move this to Techniques forum, it accidentally got posted here.

 

[Zepth]

I'd guess that your fridge is wired to be a fridge, not a custom fermentation chamber. If only the manufacturers would learn!

It will be fine. I've had gelatin help fine a beer at room temperature. It took just over a week and I could see the "clear line" dropping bit by bit daily. I've also "cold crashed" around 45F without any finings. Once again, it just took a little longer.

 

[arnobg]

I'd guess that your fridge is wired to be a fridge, not a custom fermentation chamber. If only the manufacturers would learn!

It will be fine. I've had gelatin help fine a beer at room temperature. It took just over a week and I could see the "clear line" dropping bit by bit daily. I've also "cold crashed" around 45F without any finings. Once again, it just took a little longer.

Well this is slightly embarrassing but maybe someone else will learn form my mistake before posting..

I just realized I had been making the temperature warmer by turning the setting to a lower number when I needed to turn it up to go cooler. Should get a lot colder now.

 

[brewfarmDan]

I crash at 40. It takes my fridge a couple days to get 11 gallons from 70 to 40. You can add some frozen 1 gallon gugs to speed it up or get lower temps