Acceptable Brewing Temps...
Posted:
Tue May 18, 2010 5:30 amby LUE42
My house is generally too cold to brew so I've put together a little brewing box but the box is holding at a steady 88 degrees. The instructions call for 75- 80. Will that extra eight be too much or slow the rate at all?
Re: Acceptable Brewing Temps...
Posted:
Tue Jun 15, 2010 4:38 pmby mcain112
Not at all, I have multiple bottles on my patio & I live in Florida. Right now the average temperature outside is about 90 degrees during the day, & I already have some fairly good stuff after only 4 days! Just try not to let it get rediculously hot, like above 95 degrees (the tolerance might be higher but just to be safe) and you should be fine.
Re: Acceptable Brewing Temps...
Posted:
Sat Jul 03, 2010 4:35 pmby ezcaps
LUE42 wrote:My house is generally too cold to brew so I've put together a little brewing box but the box is holding at a steady 88 degrees. The instructions call for 75- 80. Will that extra eight be too much or slow the rate at all?
The yeast is rated to 104 degrees so in theory you should be OK to about 100 (the yeast generates it's own heat so the beverage will be warmer than the ambient temperature) unless you get runaway fermentation.