fermentating ale almost accidentally frozen

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BigCask

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Doh! I almost froze my fermenting bitter after only 4 days of fermentation. Will it finish?

I have a freezer + johnson control thermostat/controller for maintaining fermentation temp, and accidentally left the thermostat out overnight. The beer probably got down to ~40 F.

I haven't checked the FG yet. But assuming it's not down to desired FG yet, any chance it continues to ferment properly after bringing it back to 65 F or so.... ?

The starting gravity was only about 1.45. I'm using wyeast london esb #1968 w/ a starter on stirplate. I got decent activity after only 4 hours or so ...

Thanks
BigCask
 
you might want to rouse the fermenter again after it gets back to temp so it will resuspend the yeast and get it going again.
 
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