Yeast at 94°F

[nahibf]

Yesterday I had a problem with my cooling process and I've pitched the yeast at 94°, should I keep this wort as it is? What should I do? Thanks for the support.

 

[JonM]

94° F is pretty darn toasty. Did it cool down to room temp overnight? If so, you're probably okay.

What yeast is it?

 

[Upthewazzu]

You may get some off-flavors from that. However, if it cooled down to <70°F within a reasonable amount of time you should be ok.

 

[DoctorMemory]

What kind of yeast? Saisons like it hot (although not 94°!), so you'd probably be OK with one of those. Lager yeast will not be happy, it's hard to say what kind of off-flavors you might get. The "special sauce" in California Common is pushing lager yeast to ale fermentation temperatures, but those are still a good twenty or thirty degrees below your pitching temp.

Probably no real harm done, but consider that you might have to age that batch a bit to get rid of any unwanted off flavors.

 

[nahibf]

94° f is pretty darn toasty. Did it cool down to room temp overnight? If so, you're probably okay.

What yeast is it?

us-05

 

[nahibf]

What kind of yeast? Saisons like it hot (although not 94°!), so you'd probably be OK with one of those. Lager yeast will not be happy, it's hard to say what kind of off-flavors you might get. The "special sauce" in California Common is pushing lager yeast to ale fermentation temperatures, but those are still a good twenty or thirty degrees below your pitching temp.

Probably no real harm done, but consider that you might have to age that batch a bit to get rid of any unwanted off flavors.

I used US-05, thanks for the support!

 

[pvpeacock]

I once had a batch with US-05 ferment at 78-80 degrees (before I had temperature control and an unexpected heat wave hit). The beer tasted like rocket fuel and was undrinkable even after letting it "condition" in the keg for months and months. I finally admitted my defeat the dumped it. However, you never know how it is going to turn out until it's done fermenting and its ready to drink.

 

[Calder]

Never toss a beer before you give it a chance to see how it turns out, but don't be too optimistic for it. I suspect you have created a lot of fusel alcohols that may give you headaches even drinking in small batches.

Please report back on the results.

 

[bkboiler]

give it a few weeks. then taste.

ive pitched accidentally in the 90s before i knew better and the only time it turned out good was a saison. every other beer was full of fusel alcohols.