cold crash advice needed please

[timbo41]

Folks my two current brews in secondary are Coopers APA and Harvest Stout. Both bottled in 500 ml koparberg glass. They have been inside for over a week and my squeeze test on the small pop bottle I did for both brews suggests that carbonation well advanced. Would normally cold crash them now in shed to lock in the co2 but its really warm in east anglia at mo. I dont have room in fridge for 80 bottles .. am I still ok to lay away in shed??

[Monkeybrew]

Speaking from experience with last years brews, bottles don't seem to suffer any long term issues when being stored in a warm shed, but as I found out, kegs definitely don't fair well

[orlando]

Speaking from experience with last years brews, bottles don't seem to suffer any long term issues when being stored in a warm shed, but as I found out, kegs definitely don't fair well

Tell me more am just about to start a brew where I was thinking of kegging 1/2 and bottling the rest. What was the temp when it all went wrong? What is the highest storage temp in an unbroached keg can it stand?

[Monkeybrew]

I came unstuck April last year, I got 2 brews kegged and decided to store them in my garden shed, then we had that mini heatwave and it all went tits up!

It probably got up to 30-40C in there in the day, but this didn't seem a problem until I started on the first keg. It wasn't off, but just had a nasty yeasty flavour and was very bitter too

[orlando]

I don't understand the connection between heat & bitterness, the latter could be down to recipe or process, yeastiness I suppose could easily be because the higher temps revived yeast that would have gone dormant in a cooler environment.