Near disaster with keezer, hopefully crisis averted?

[Jersh]

So I got home last night from a 4 day business trip and wanted to pour myself a beer. I go to my keezer, pull the tap for a honey orange wheat, and it shoots out at much higher pressure than normal and is all foam. "That's Weird" me thinks.... So I try pouring from a different tap, and while it doesn't come out with as much pressure, it's still not right... And then I realize that the glass is still warm even though it's half full. So I check my temp controller, and it's reading 93 degrees So instantly I panic and think that the compressor in the keezer has gone bad. After a few moments to calm myself down and regain some rationality, I looked back at everything I had done on Sunday before I left... I had an Octoberfest lager that I had been lagering in a secondary fermenter in my fermentation fridge that I kegged on Sunday before I left. The fridge happens to be plugged into the same outlet as my keezer/temperature controller and I unplugged the fridge on Sunday because there was nothing in it anymore. So I think I must have accidently unplugged the temp controller as well, causing it to reset.

I'm guessing the reason it got up to 93 in the keezer is because of the 2 small fans I have running inside, I'm guessing their motors throw off a small amount of heat, that after 4 days was able to raise the temp. So my lingering question now, is all of my beer shot after cooking at 93* for 4 days, especially my lager that I've been waiting on for almost 3 months?

 

[IrregularPulse]

Best you can do is taste it and wait and taste it again

 

[SweetSounds]

Wow - Bummer man!

Chill it back down, and taste the damage. It certainly can't have been good for it, but it might not be bad. Just not what you were expecting...

Good luck!

 

[david_42]

Four days at high temperatures shouldn't destroy your beer. Chill it down and give it 2-3 days to stabilize. In an off-taste seminar, they served three beer samples that had been stored at 100F for two weeks, 3 months and a year. The first one was fine, 3 months drinkable, 1 year - gross!

 

[wilserbrewer]

Perhaps the beer did not get all the way to 93?

 

[TomSD]

Perhaps the beer did not get all the way to 93?

Good point... pull a glass and drop a thermometer in it. That might not have been long enough for the beer to heat up too bad. It certainly didn't make it into the 90s I'm sure.