Wort Too Cold Overnight

[smithmd4]

Here's a potential new "I screwed up, is my beer still OK?" question.

Keggerator is empty so I decided to ferment my brown rye with 1098 in it yesterday. Only problem, was that I didn't set the new temp on my STC correctly (its NOW set properly).

I pitched at 70 at 10:30 last night and 12hrs later, I wake up to see my freezer is at 43 and NOT 64 which (I thought) I set it at. Whoops

My guess is that everything is dormant and when it warms up, just shake it back up and get on with it. I underpitched by about half (1 smack pack in a 1.056 wort) so I have some room for adding another pack on the safe side when it warms up.

So what's the consensus? Ride with it or grab another smack pack from my LHBS?

 

[losMythos]

Air Lock or Blow off tube? You should be fine. The yeast will wake up when your temp is back up. Shaking it to get em going and to add a little aeration is a good move. If your using an air lock you should see action within 24 hrs at the right temp. If you see no action than take a reading after 4-5 days. If there is no change in gravity than Plan B. More yeast.

 

[smithmd4]

Airlock.

My gut says everything should be good, but I figured I'd ask anyway.

Thanks!

 

[surffisher2a]

You will be fine! As others have said you might need to give it a shake get it going faster. Just watch the hydrometer and make sure its falling.