As it is cooling down outside temps in my basement go down as well and are between 10 and 15 C (50 60 F) depending on the furnace activity. All my beers are ferment and carbonate there. The question is what yeast should I use for my beers at this temps. I do not have a special fridge to lager and I usually use 1-2-3 formula for fermenting, conditioning and carbonating beers. I do not make heavy beers most are IPA, ESB and such with OG 1040 1050. I would highly appreciate any feedback.
Yeast beween Ale and Lager temps
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Oh, that's a great temperature! You can use kolsch yeast (I forget which one- I think it's White Labs) at that temperature. You can use San Francisco lager yeast, and make a California common.
You can use nottingham dry yeast for IPAs, and ESBs. The thing is, I like more character in English beers, and it will be hard to get the esters out of an ale yeast at those cool temperatures. It would just be a "cleaner" ESB with nottingham.
One issue would be carbonation, though. I don't think ales will carbonate very well for you at under 60 degrees. You'd have to bring some bottles upstairs to carb up, before storing them downstairs.
Thank you Yooper, so it looks like lager yeast would be more appropriate. What about WLP862 Cry Havoc and Nottingham I did not get much of information about it on the net but those yeasts look pretty versatile in terms of temperature range.
Even for my lagers, it seems like it takes forever for them to carb up under 60 degrees and I'd bring them upstairs to carbonate.
Nottingham is fine to use, but there are other strains as well that would work.
