Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
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Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
Made my first beer in eons yesterday, spent all day yesterday doing it and iv just got in from work today and the thermometer strip is saying 32 .
Will it at least be drinkable or is it facing certain doom
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Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
It will be drinkable, have you cooled in down a bit now?
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Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
Depends on the beer, but in most cases, it will be pretty nasty!
If you’re making a Belgian style, you might get away with it, otherwise I think most likely this is drain fodder.
If you’re making a Belgian style, you might get away with it, otherwise I think most likely this is drain fodder.
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Conditioning: English IPA/Bretted English IPA
Drinking: Sunshine Marmalade, Festbier, Helles Bock, Smokey lagery beer, Irish Export StoutCascade APA (homegrown hops), Orval clone, Impy stout, Duvel clone, Conestoga (American Barley wine)
Planning: Dark Mild, Kozel dark (ish), Simmonds Bitter, Bitter, Citra PA and more!
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Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
It's a pale ale from the brew dog diy list,Cobnut wrote:Depends on the beer, but in most cases, it will be pretty nasty!
If you’re making a Belgian style, you might get away with it, otherwise I think most likely this is drain fodder.
I'm going to have to see it through but I don't have high hopes.
Might be time to get myself a brew fridge
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Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
I used to ramp up my brewing in the spring so that I could give summer a miss. I got a freebie fridge probably five years ago. When not fermenting at 18C or crashing at 3C it spends most of its time storing bottles at 12C which is quite a nice temperature to store our stash of chocolate during the heatwave.
Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
Yeah, I brew in stock up in spring to skip July and August.
Perhaps ough to scrounge a fridge, but just started "ferment in kettle" and that is just sooo nice.
Perhaps ough to scrounge a fridge, but just started "ferment in kettle" and that is just sooo nice.
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Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
Could do with getting a brew on myself.
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18-28c? Can't be right surely?
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18-28c? Can't be right surely?
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Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
Ale yeast can die at those temperatures, leaving an umami or marmite taste. I doubt you will have something that anyone can enjoy. You may be able to persuade yourself it's alright. You would definitely send it back in a Pub.
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Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
Not wanting to start another conversation about the pro's / con's of kveik yeast but recently had good experince using it but I think you have to choose your type of beer carefully.
I used 1 year old slurry of VOSS KVEIK in a hoppy pale are.
I fermented a couple of weeks ago and could only get it up to 29°C it's operating temp is between 33-40°C.
Good orange peel flavour against a double dry hop drop of Mosaic. A really nice beer.
If the slurry can last another year I'll be doing the same next year.
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I used 1 year old slurry of VOSS KVEIK in a hoppy pale are.
I fermented a couple of weeks ago and could only get it up to 29°C it's operating temp is between 33-40°C.
Good orange peel flavour against a double dry hop drop of Mosaic. A really nice beer.
If the slurry can last another year I'll be doing the same next year.
Cheers
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Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
Kveik eh?
Could be the answer but if it's temperature range is upwards of 30c, how would it perform at around 25c ambient?
Any special treatment required?
Cheers Tom
Could be the answer but if it's temperature range is upwards of 30c, how would it perform at around 25c ambient?
Any special treatment required?
Cheers Tom
Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
Special treatment: sounds like turning the heater up.
Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
I wonder how crafty Norwegians managed to maintain fermentations at 40*C, historically. No doubt there’s a very colourful explanation or two.
Re: Just how bad is fermenting at 32 degrees?
I've often wondered about that. Perhaps saunas were invented to ferment beer
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