Too Cold to Ferment!

[Phil28307]

Need some fermentation advice. I recently brewed on Sunday and brought my wort down to 68 degrees and I pitched my dry ale yeast at that point. I have a fermentor unit that I use to control my temperatures which I had at 65 degrees. Unfortunately, with the recent weather my garage got down to about 45 degrees.Well, I discovered that the temp on the beer went down to 45 degrees within my fermentor unit I built. I did not see any signs of fermentation so I brought the bucket in the house hoping to warm up the wort so fermentation can continue.

Does this mean I lost my beer? Is it possible that warming the cool wort could resume the fermentation process and I should be able to see fermentation occur?

 

[Black Island Brewer]

You should be fine. Once the beer warms up, you might want to rouse the yeast with a sanitized spoon. As long as fermentation hasn't begun, adding oxygen at this point will only help.

 

[Phil28307]

-Thank you!

 

[adamdillabo]

Had the same problem. Swirled the bucket and got it to mid 60s and it's bubbling along. Tempted to check its gravity.