Pitching yeast morning after brewing?

[Troutchaser]

So it's getting hot here! Really freaking hot and cooling the wort below 70 gets a bit tricky. So my question is there anything wrong with cooling to 70 then putting the wort in the fermentation chamber over night then pitching yeast the next morning? Would this have any negative effects on the outcome of the beer? Also should I aerate the the wort the night I brew or wait until the morning I pitch my yeast?

 

[Aristotelian]

How low does your ferm chamber go? If you are worried about anything growing overnight, you could cool it in there to refrigerator temperature.

 

[Scuba_Steve81]

I recently asked a similar question.

You should be fine. The only danger would be allowing wild yeasts and other baddies to get first crack at your beer... I would pitch as soon as it drops to your pitching temp. Maybe set an alarm, and check on it early in the am.

 

[Erik_Mog]

My last batch I was able to get down to 78F in about 40min with no wort chiller (used frozen 2 liter bottles). Put it in my chest freezer ferm chamber set to 65F, covered the top of the carboy with some sanitized plastic wrap, and was at pitching temp in an hour (3 thermometers showed same temp, so fairly certain it was accurate). You shouldn't need to wait overnight if you are using a temperature controlled ferm chamber. This was my experience, and YMMV.

 

[hopbrad]

i have to do it here, ground water gets my wort to 85 at best. i wouldnt worry about infection unless ur setup has caused infections in the past.
if your pitching a starter at high krausen and its a finicky yeast, maybe wait, but 70 is fine for most ale strains. by the time the lag phase even starts you should be atleast 3-5 degrees cooler.

 

[Stillraining]

Lots of guys do a no chill method of cooling...Keep it covered 100% of the time and you will be fine.

 

[dwhite60]

Tap water is getting pretty warm here too.

I bought a cheap fountain pump from Harbor Freight. Once I get my wort down in the 90's or so I put the pump in a cooler of ice with a little water and recirculate it through my immersion chiller.Getting it down to pitching temp doesn't take long then.

All the Best,
D. White

 

[Troutchaser]

Thanks for all the input. I went ahead and let the fermentation chamber cool the wort over night and pitched in the morning. So far so good I guess I'll really see in a couple weeks when I'm drinking it!

 

[snowgoon77]

I have done that in the past without issue, in the summer when it was to hot or couldn't get to pitching it right away and in the winter when there wasn't any outside water available.

In the summer if your tap water consistently isn't going to get you to pitching temps, you might consider a pre-chiller. Basically another smaller copper chiller put into a bucket of ice water inline from the water supply before the wort chiller. Cool the water before you heat it back up agian.

 

[Beer-lord]

Tap water is getting pretty warm here too.

I bought a cheap fountain pump from Harbor Freight. Once I get my wort down in the 90's or so I put the pump in a cooler of ice with a little water and recirculate it through my immersion chiller.Getting it down to pitching temp doesn't take long then.

All the Best,
D. White

^THIS works for me as well. My ground water gets to the upper 70's to 80 in the late summer and I get the wort down to about 100-110 then switch over to the pump with ice. I can get 20 lbs of loose ice for $1.50 and I have no problem getting it down to 65 and pitching though I admit, I spend an extra 15 minutes in the summer than the rest of the year but so what, it works.

 

[SEndorf]

So it's getting hot here! Really freaking hot and cooling the wort below 70 gets a bit tricky. So my question is there anything wrong with cooling to 70 then putting the wort in the fermentation chamber over night then pitching yeast the next morning? Would this have any negative effects on the outcome of the beer? Also should I aerate the the wort the night I brew or wait until the morning I pitch my yeast?

I assume you have a temp controlled fermentation chamber?
No worries. Cool to your pitching temp, THEN aerate and pitch.
It's common practice with lagers. You'll be fine.

 

[Troutchaser]

Yeah I just used my chiller to cool until the wort was about 72 then put it in the temp controlled chamber and pitched in the morning. One thing I wasn't sure about was when to aerate do I do it the night I brew or the next morning when I pitch?

 

[brewkinger]

One thing I wasn't sure about was when to aerate do I do it the night I brew or the next morning when I pitch?

Aerate right before you pitch the yeast.