italianorose
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I brewed a 5 gallon batch, and honestly I have been brewing good tasting beer since I started in January. I follow all directions (I am not good enough for all grain), and I sanitize very thoroughly. I even temp control to the best of my ability. However, this batch is my kryptonite and literally everything went wrong in brew day from accidentally dropping a wrapper from LME in my wort during brewing (bad can, had trouble opening and ripped paper). I couldn’t cool wort down even with my ice bath so I ended up sitting there for like three hours watching baseball waiting for it to cool, when it got to 70 degrees I pitched my yeast and called it a night. It got very late.
So that all happened Tuesday evening (brew day) Thursday morning, we have a bad heat wave in WI that caught me off guard. My house temp reads 70 degrees, but my ambient temp thermometer read 80. It doesn’t feel 80 in here but that’s what it read. I noticed condensation inside of my fermenter and freaked out. So I took my fermenter to the basement (it’s very heavy and my stairs are steep, which was my first mistake just not touching it out and not taking it downstairs to begin with). I usually do, but this one scared me.
Now here I am Thursday morning, ambient temperature reads 65 degrees, and I have a cold towel wrapped around fermenter in my basement. Do any of you think my IPA will be okay, have fusels or any esters I should be concerned with? I took the airlock and blow off tube off so I could transport the wort downstairs, and I smelt it to see if it smelt alright and it did smell great. Actually really good. I am just nervous. All my batches blow the blow off tube off and they all turned out great and I love giving them away because I’m proud of the quality. This one is fermenting quick and it’s just scaring me. Did I temp control too late?
Note, it hasn’t been 80 the whole time upstairs. Today was the hottest it got. It always read 70-75 upstairs and today is when I saw the condensation and freaked out.
Thank you, it’s all a learning experience right?
So that all happened Tuesday evening (brew day) Thursday morning, we have a bad heat wave in WI that caught me off guard. My house temp reads 70 degrees, but my ambient temp thermometer read 80. It doesn’t feel 80 in here but that’s what it read. I noticed condensation inside of my fermenter and freaked out. So I took my fermenter to the basement (it’s very heavy and my stairs are steep, which was my first mistake just not touching it out and not taking it downstairs to begin with). I usually do, but this one scared me.
Now here I am Thursday morning, ambient temperature reads 65 degrees, and I have a cold towel wrapped around fermenter in my basement. Do any of you think my IPA will be okay, have fusels or any esters I should be concerned with? I took the airlock and blow off tube off so I could transport the wort downstairs, and I smelt it to see if it smelt alright and it did smell great. Actually really good. I am just nervous. All my batches blow the blow off tube off and they all turned out great and I love giving them away because I’m proud of the quality. This one is fermenting quick and it’s just scaring me. Did I temp control too late?
Note, it hasn’t been 80 the whole time upstairs. Today was the hottest it got. It always read 70-75 upstairs and today is when I saw the condensation and freaked out.
Thank you, it’s all a learning experience right?