84runner
02-13-2006, 04:37 PM
(sorry a bit wordy)...
Ok, let me start by saying Im stoked and can't wait to drink the fruits of my labor, (I think I've already discovered the hard part will be the waiting).
My question; is it ok that the wort when cooled may have been a bit higher than 80*? Probably like low 80*'s? And the temp didn't lower down to the 70*'s till about 10 hours later?
It started last night when I finished my first batch of "California Pale Ale" and used a cooling coil, (I was told saves time, which I now see) which cooled the wort down in less than 10 minutes. This was where I may have made a booboo.
I took the coil and the temp probe out at 80 degrees, (I thought) however after syphoning the wart and adding the yeast and slapping on the temperature sticker, (you know the stickers for the side of the glass jugs), never read a temperature, (it only reads up to 78*). I figured it was still right at 80ish*, so we went out for the night with friends, came back about 4 hours later at midnight and in the 65 degree room the wort still hadn't started to foam or bubble and the temp still wasn't reading!
Well at 7am it was finally at 76 degrees and there was a bit of foam, and now at 3pm it is about 72* and there is a nice 2 inches or so of foam and the 1 was valve is bubbling away.
Yee Haa, anyway I believe what happened was that when I thought the wort was at 80* the temp probe was on the outside of the coil with only an inch or so of wort between it and the side of the pot. This area was most likely cooler than the inner much larger area of the pot so it was actually warmer than 80*.
So again, it does appear everything is going well now, but is the fact that the yeast was put in at higher than 80* for so long going to alter anything?
Cheers,
Jeff
Ok, let me start by saying Im stoked and can't wait to drink the fruits of my labor, (I think I've already discovered the hard part will be the waiting).
My question; is it ok that the wort when cooled may have been a bit higher than 80*? Probably like low 80*'s? And the temp didn't lower down to the 70*'s till about 10 hours later?
It started last night when I finished my first batch of "California Pale Ale" and used a cooling coil, (I was told saves time, which I now see) which cooled the wort down in less than 10 minutes. This was where I may have made a booboo.
I took the coil and the temp probe out at 80 degrees, (I thought) however after syphoning the wart and adding the yeast and slapping on the temperature sticker, (you know the stickers for the side of the glass jugs), never read a temperature, (it only reads up to 78*). I figured it was still right at 80ish*, so we went out for the night with friends, came back about 4 hours later at midnight and in the 65 degree room the wort still hadn't started to foam or bubble and the temp still wasn't reading!
Well at 7am it was finally at 76 degrees and there was a bit of foam, and now at 3pm it is about 72* and there is a nice 2 inches or so of foam and the 1 was valve is bubbling away.
Yee Haa, anyway I believe what happened was that when I thought the wort was at 80* the temp probe was on the outside of the coil with only an inch or so of wort between it and the side of the pot. This area was most likely cooler than the inner much larger area of the pot so it was actually warmer than 80*.
So again, it does appear everything is going well now, but is the fact that the yeast was put in at higher than 80* for so long going to alter anything?
Cheers,
Jeff