Temperature difference room to fermenter

[mparmer]

I just brewed up a kit this morning (porter), carried it up to my fermenting room and was fooling around washing up some stuff. The temp of the beer as I pitched the yeast and put the top on was about 70. Minutes after I carried it up, I happened to glance at the Temp strip on the fermenting bucket, it was already at 75+. Obviously that yeast was already hard at work!!! The room temp was 70. So I cranked the air up a bit to get the room down in the low to mid 60's so the temp difference will hopefully keep the fermenting beer in the 70 to 72 range, tops. I used 2 packs of coopers ale yeast. Should I try to get the room/fermenter temp down even more?

BTW, home brewing f'in rocks!! Going to my first HB club meeting tonight. Turns out there's a club right here in my home town!!!!

 

[Urban]

If the room is 70 degrees and doesnt have much of a temperature swing you should be fine. I leave my carboys in a downstairs interior room and the temperature throughout the day is always from 68-72 degrees.

 

[WorryWort]

There's no hard and fast rule, but the temp of the beer CAN be 5F higher than the ambient. Not always is this true. I find mine are typically 2-3 degrees higher than ambient.

I've never used cooper's yeast but 70-72F should be fine.

 

[artyusmc]

look up swamp cooler. i've learned temp control is important

 

[WorryWort]

look up swamp cooler. i've learned temp control is important

Oh yeah. Temp control is absolutely the most important thing. You can make a highly quaff-able beer with nothing but extract and and a single hop if you actually use the right amount of high quality, healthy yeast at the right temp. Crucial!!!!

 

[rico567]

I think the single biggest step I took toward effective temperature control happened early, when I read a thread about cooling under 70F instead of following most instructions, which say 80F. Fortunately, with our 55F well water, this is not difficult. Get the temperature down, put it in our basement, which is in the low 60Fs most of the time, and the temperature never rises above 66-67F. Makes good beer.