grrickar
Well-Known Member
Well it happened, my temp fridge probe detached from the carboy and fell out of the fridge, so the STC1000+ I had controlling fermentation switched to heat mode and pretty much baked my batch of cream ale.
So I brewed it last Friday, and fermentation had slowed considerably. No krausen, yeast was White Labs Cream Ale yeast. Best I can tell the incident occurred last night, so it spent about 12 hours increasing the temp from 68F to 94F!.
I reattached the probe, put the carboy back in the fridge and it is cooling now, but not sure if the batch is lost or not. I am going to let it push through and sample before I bottle, and hope that it is ok.
I'm dropping the temp back down to 68F.
I'm sure I am not the only one to have had this luck - anyone have any experiences to share?
Oh, and to make things more fun, I had 5 bombers of various things in the fridge with it, so they got nice and steamy too.
So I brewed it last Friday, and fermentation had slowed considerably. No krausen, yeast was White Labs Cream Ale yeast. Best I can tell the incident occurred last night, so it spent about 12 hours increasing the temp from 68F to 94F!.
I reattached the probe, put the carboy back in the fridge and it is cooling now, but not sure if the batch is lost or not. I am going to let it push through and sample before I bottle, and hope that it is ok.
I'm dropping the temp back down to 68F.
I'm sure I am not the only one to have had this luck - anyone have any experiences to share?
Oh, and to make things more fun, I had 5 bombers of various things in the fridge with it, so they got nice and steamy too.