Will yeast be ok?

[rob6239]

I have two beers fermenting in buckets in my basement (one is just over a week, the other about 39 days) and furnace in my house acting up so I plugged in space heater to point at buckets and got temp at about 70 got colder at night so I turned up heat a notch and pushed heater closer but in mornjng temp was over 75 (both are wlp-001)
I'm letting them cool and hopefully any activity will ramp up again once they get to normal temperature

Besides waiting a few more weeks when they should be done, should i try and sneak some gravity readings over a couple days to make sure its still active and didn't get too hot and stunt progress? Or even if I wait (I don't like opening up fermenting buckets early) and final gravity is high in both could I just pitch more yeast and be fine then ?

 

[bbrim]

RDWHAHB. You didn't hurt anything. I wouldn't want to hit 75 in the first 48 hours because it might throw off a little funk. That late in fermentation its no big deal. More worrisome would be a quick drop in temperature. You should still check your gravity, especially the one at 39 days, that is a long primary.

 

[rob6239]

Oops stupid phone tyoe-o. I hadn't noticed one beer is just over a week and second is 3 days (not 39 ha!)