I bought the Coopers DIY kit with the lager ingredients.
Despite the instructions and the youtube videos suggesting that I do a test run to make sure that I can accurately hit a temp between 21 and 27c when filling the fermentor - I decided that test runs were for chumps.
I ended up being somewhere around 28c when I was done adding water and put the yeast in.
My ambient temperatures this time of year are around 22-24 most days so I have the plastic fermentor in a larger container and in the larger container I have some water in the base and I add frozen bottles to that to lower the temp.
I have been tracking the temperature via a temp tracking device I have made and this is what the graph looks like:
Is the fact that the brew started at 28c going to screw me?
Is the fact that I dropped it from 28c to 21c going to screw me?
Should I just buy new ingredients now and dump is batch down the toilet?
Despite the instructions and the youtube videos suggesting that I do a test run to make sure that I can accurately hit a temp between 21 and 27c when filling the fermentor - I decided that test runs were for chumps.
I ended up being somewhere around 28c when I was done adding water and put the yeast in.
My ambient temperatures this time of year are around 22-24 most days so I have the plastic fermentor in a larger container and in the larger container I have some water in the base and I add frozen bottles to that to lower the temp.
I have been tracking the temperature via a temp tracking device I have made and this is what the graph looks like:
Is the fact that the brew started at 28c going to screw me?
Is the fact that I dropped it from 28c to 21c going to screw me?
Should I just buy new ingredients now and dump is batch down the toilet?