Is 75 degrees to warm for fermenting beer? My last batch I was away from home for 2 days and it got to 80 degrees and it tasted really strong.
What yeast are you using?
Lots of yeast ferment higher than the 65 deg that a lot of home brewers refer to, calif 001 likes 68 to 75, check out other yeast.
Search "swamp cooler" It's a tub with some water in it and the fermenter sits in the water, ice bottles changed out as needed control the temperature.
The yeast may like those temps but I don't. I used to ferment 001 at the recommended 68-72 degrees many yrs ago and would pretty commonly have diacetyl issues. It's much cleaner for me at 63-65. US-05 does okay a little warmer for me.
I will have to try 001 at 63 to 65 deg, thanks for the tip.
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So do you take a temp straight from the wort?
I LOVE WLP001 at 62-64 degrees! It has become my house strain at those temperatures. I don't like it above 68 degrees nearly as much.
The only regulator American ale strain I've found that I don't mind as high as 72 degrees is S05, although I don't use it all that often.
I use 60-64 degrees for Wyeast 1450 (Denny's Favorite) with great results.
If possible, yes. If not, use one of the sticky thermometer strips. Seems like they are accurate to a degree or two. Another method is to measure the temp of the water in your swamp cooler. It will be very close to the temp of your beer.
My wife loves beer too, but some yeast don't go well with her, we tried the 001 and found it go's good with her and she really like the way beers come out with this yeast, cant wait to try it at lower temps and see how she likes it.
Yooper do you find it to produce a crisper cleaner beer fermenting WLP001 at the lower temps ?
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I use dry yeast. I try to keep around 68-70 degrees on the liquid thermometer. Is this to warm or will it be good??
Yes, it seems to be cleaner at lower temperatures, more so than S05 (which I think gets "peachy" at 64 degrees).
Thanks Yooper, like always, very helpful !
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