pitched too warm/cooled quickly

[Burquebrewer]

I am working with a very new setup and goofed up. I need advise. I didn't get the wort cooled enough and pitched at 88 F. I pitched the yeast while measuring the temp of the wort coming out of the chiller, but my ss blichmann conical was sitting in the sun while I was filling and the temp was hot -88F. I immediately caught it and started to run the wort back through my counterflow chiller and got it down to 70 in about 20 minutes. Obviously, fermentation had not begun.

Will there be off flavors from pitching hot, even if cooled to 70 within 30 minutes?

Will there be negative effects from running the wort through the chiller again after I pitched (the chiller and everything else was sanitized thoroughly)?

Thanks!

 

[jkovac]

I did the exact same thing recently and the beer turned out great. You will probably be fine.

 

[Burquebrewer]

Great! Thanks for the reply. Glad the first response was a positive one. I expect I might get a few people saying something different, but I will welcome anyone else's experiences with this type of situation.

Thanks again jkovac.

 

[Burquebrewer]

Update on this. I checked this morning and fermentation is beginning about 12 hrs after pitching. The internal temp of the fermentor is at 68 F. This is the wort temp, not ambient air temp. Smells great and there appear to be no signs of bacterial infection.

Looks like this batch may be good to go!

 

[kh54s10]

I would say the yeast didn't have time to really do anything in the time that you took to cool it. 88F is not high enough to harm the yeast. The only thing of concern would be the temperature difference between the wort and the yeast. Too big a difference might shock the yeast, but since your fermentation is going I would bet there was no problem.