fermentation temperature

I recently brewed a German Pilsner with a large starter of WLP830. Everything is going swimmingly fermenting at 50F. When FG reached 1.016, I turned off my glycol and started to let temperature rise for a diacetyl rest… Problem is temperature in my garage doesn’t get above 57F. I’m fermenting...

I brewed a German Pilsner yesterday. 10 Gallons at 1.059 OG (first brew on a new rig and overboiled a tad). So my OG is higher than desirable. I made a 5L starter of WLP830. However, after decanting, the yeast cake on the bottom of my flask was really thick and stuck to the bottom. So I chilled...

HBT Community, I have experienced a weird anomaly while monitoring the temperature of my lager fermentation. White Labs German Lager Yeast WLP830. I have been monitoring the wort/fermenting beer temperature periodically, while also continuously monitoring the ambient fridge temperature through...

Hey guys, I’m currently fermenting my beer with the Voss Kveik yeast strain, and holding temps at 40 deg C (104 F) with a heat blanket. Fermentation began within an hour (lots of CO2 out of airlock!) and has been going for 48 hours. Plan to rack off in 5 days. After fermentation is complete...

Hey all. I've been experimenting with no chill brewing lately.. Usually leave the finished wort in the kettle until it's cool enough to transfer into my bucket (usually around 90F or so). This last batch, I did a short and shoddy version of a blonde ale I've done before. The previous...

I have been brewing for many years, all ales. I never had a fermentation chamber, so my general goal was to keep the temps steady with a target of 65F being "good" and below 60F and above 72F being "bad". Just two weeks ago I got a used freezer for a fermentation chamber. Now that I can...

I just recently built a new son of fermentation chiller, maiden voyage was supposed to be tonight, and I neglected to buy some gallon jugs of water and freeze them ahead of time... I had a similar build years ago and I recall the gallon jugs working ok for a while, but eventually splitting and...

Greetings all, I've got a 9 month-old Flemish Red on the go, 1.051 OG, 15 IBU, simple infusion mash at 154 F. Nothing fancy like turbid mash. I had planned on the Roeselare blend but no luck when shopping, so got the WLP 655 instead and pitched it with Wyeast 3787. The primary was pretty...

Hi all. I have only been brewing for a few months now and I have only been doing one gallon batches. For my 6th brew, I decided to try a NEIPA and wouldn't you know they were out of London III so I grabbed the 1968 ESB because I wanted to brew in short order. My brew went well and I treated my...

I have what seems to be a simple question, but I have seen conflicting information on this topic. I have brewed about a dozen 5 gallon extract batches since I started brewing back in January and have been very happy with just about all of them. So far I have been fermenting in an interior...

HI All, I attempting to make a Hefeweizen recently, and to keep it cool, tried the swamp cooler. The problem that i ran into with this is that when i put the hef into it i dropped a 1 gallon water jug to keep the temps down. It fermented at what i think was 60* or so, but i wasn't able to amply...

I am proud to announce the release of Fermentrack - a web interface for fermentation monitoring and control. Fermentrack is a free, open source replacement web interface for BrewPi and enables the control of one or multiple BrewPi fermentation temperature controllers from a single web portal...

I just racked a split batch: 3 fermenters, 3 separate saison yeasts (WLP566, M29 and BE-134). I have two heaters (the flat mat type that goes under the fermenter) + controllers for each. The set-up I settled on was to control the WLP566 batch and M29 batch and then I balanced the BE-134 on top...

I moved a batch of IPA to a carboy yesterday, everything seemed fine. I had tried to keep temperature in the 20-22 deg C range for the first 4 days, then let it drift - it went to around 19 C for the rest of the week it spent in the primary. Temperature reading was on an externally mounted...

So, I recently ordered the deluxe starter kit from MoreBeer--it is supposed to arrive next week. I have done a couple of dry runs with simply boiling hot water. Although I have learned several things doing so, I also have a major concern--fermentation temperature. So, I downloaded the...

Background: I bought a new conical and my friends offer to buy all the ingredients and spend an afternoon brewing with me. They also popped for the beer and brats that day for use of my equip. Brewing day goes flawlessly. Pitched 2 packs US-05 into 12.5 gal SNPA clone @ 64*. Ferm raises...

Hi Folks, New to the forum and first post so bear with me, it's lengthy. I've brewed about 4-5 NEIPA's recently with pretty good results for a very new brewer. There is really just one thing I've begun to notice about them, the flavor is very similar regardless of the hops I use! After reading...

I saw somewhere that the heat tape used in terrariums is the same thing as a fermwrap, but for 1/3 the price. :rockin: You might be able to find the materials at a local reptile/aquarium/pet shop and do your own assembly. I went the easy route and ordered from these guys and the assembly...