You Know It Is Hot When .......

[Doc]

You know it is hot when your temp monitoring/graphing setup goes off the scale.
Thank god for temp controlled fermentation environment. I've had to lower the temp though to account for the hot external temperature and four very active fermentations plus two stir plates going strong in the freezer.

41 degrees out side at my place at the moment. Thankfully I got my brew under way early this morning and was finished by lunchtime.

Hows everyone elses brews holding up to the hot temps ?

Beers,
Doc

 

[Bazza]

You know it is hot when your temp monitoring/graphing setup goes off the scale.
Thank god for temp controlled fermentation environment. I've had to lower the temp though to account for the hot external temperature and four very active fermentations plus two stir plates going strong in the freezer.

41 degrees out side at my place at the moment. Thankfully I got my brew under way early this morning and was finished by lunchtime.

Hows everyone elses brews holding up to the hot temps ?

Beers,
Doc

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I've got a cheap fix to the heat. I acquired two large box eskys (the foam is about 100mm thick all the way round sides and bottom) and brew inside them (one upside down on top of the other). I stick some freezer bricks in there and can keep ambient temps between 14-18 degrees. If I need to I can use my fridge but I try not to cos the kegs have nowhere to go and I have no beer for a couple of weeks...
Good weather for drinking a few though innit? Speaking of which...

 

[sosman]

Hows everyone elses brews holding up to the hot temps ?

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Damn glass keeps gettin' empty.

 

[agro]

I don't want to think about it. I was supposed to take delivery of a second hand fridge off a friend today to use as a fermenting fridge... bugger reneged on me.

I hope the wort from Braidwood can last another day or so while I resolve a refridgeration problem. I built and tested the external themostat/controller last night, all I need is the fridge.

Rather annoyed at this point.

Cheers
Jason

 

[fergi]

speaking of the hot weather,have you ever noticed that beer that you brewed that wasnt that good turns out to be on a day like today,41 deg here in adelaide,VERY DRINKABLE AND NOT AS BAD AS YOU REMEMBERED,just the weather though i think ,beer probably tastes crap any other day but today its a beauty
fergi

 

[muga]

I brewed a heap for this time of year, now just got full kegs and trying to empty them.. only a couple more days of work and I get 4 weeks off.. wahoo!

 

[Kai]

Hows everyone elses brews holding up to the hot temps ?

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Damn glass keeps gettin' empty.

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I seem to be suffering from a similar malady.

Brews in fermenters, on the other hand, just aren't going at all.

 

[big d]

part of life up here doc.mid 30,s 95% plus humidity and even raining at times and still hot.we just deal with it.

cheers
big d

 

[dickTed]

I've got my latest brew in the new primary fermenting fridge at 18-20C, but the previous is in secondary showing 28C - should be a fruity brew.

 

[Kai]

In secondary it shouldn't matter so much, I just wouldn't leave it there too long nor expect as much settling of the yeast.

 

[Stoodoo]

Currently have an esb Bavarian lager 3kg kit in primary atm, with pilsner urquell yeast. I don't have a fermentation fridge yet, but make do with cheapo cooling setup. Basically, I've sit the fermentor in a large plastic tub. Around the sides of the tub I have wrapped 25metres of plastic bubble wrap (meant to be one of the best insulators). I have this tub filled with water and twice a day, I put/replace a 3lt plastic milk container filled with water (that has been frozen). Even with outside temps reaching 37c (inside temps approaching 27-29c) my ferment temps only vary from ~ 6-8celsius.

Cheers

 

[tangent]

another fan of bubble wrap!
my current mash tun depends upon it

 

[Gough]

Currently have an esb Bavarian lager 3kg kit in primary atm, with pilsner urquell yeast. I don't have a fermentation fridge yet, but make do with cheapo cooling setup. Basically, I've sit the fermentor in a large plastic tub. Around the sides of the tub I have wrapped 25metres of plastic bubble wrap (meant to be one of the best insulators). I have this tub filled with water and twice a day, I put/replace a 3lt plastic milk container filled with water (that has been frozen). Even with outside temps reaching 37c (inside temps approaching 27-29c) my ferment temps only vary from ~ 6-8celsius.

Cheers

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Stoodoo,

Where did you get the Pilsner Urquell yeast?? Is it a Wyeast? I've heard they have one available in the States, but haven't come across it out here yet.

Thanks,

Shawn.

 

[stephen]

another fan of bubble wrap!
my current mash tun depends upon it

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Thank you for the great idea! I've been looking around for someway to insulate my HB box and now have the solution. I work in an area where everything we receive is wrapped in bubble wrap - and I will make the greenies happy as I will be 'recycling'!

Cheers

Steve

 

[warrenlw63]

I've actually got my Blonde Ale fermenting in the fridge to hold it at 25c !! We're expecting 42c in Melb. today. Now that's hot!!

Shawn. The Wyeast (PU) strain is Wy. 2001. It's only listed on certain sites in the US. Not even specified on Wyeast's website oddly enough.

Speaking of bubblewrap another good and probably more robust source of it is to buy yourself a couple of those silver-lined windshield visors. I found one laying around the garage and put it on the mashtun. Combined with Armflex expansion jointing it holds temperatures in the tun superbly. My last mash lost no temperature at all over 90 mins. :beerbang: So I thought bugger it, may as well do the HLT the same way while I'm at it. Should save a bit of electricity and hopefully hold temps more steady as well.

Total cost for the modifications. Windshield protector $4.50 & 2 x rolls of expansion jointing $16. Note; 1 roll does 1 keg exactly. :beer:

Warren -

 

[tangent]

and I will make the greenies happy as I will be 'recycling'!

even better than that, you'll be re-using. It takes less energy to re-use something in it's current form than it does to take it apart and melt it into something new (recycle).
it takes the brain of a homebrewer to work out uses for old bits and pieces

tidy work Warren B)

 

[Darren]

Nice job Warren.
How hard is it to clean? What happens to th foil if it gets wet?
cheers
Darren

 

[warrenlw63]

Darren.

The foil is plastic coated. As long as no water gets underneath it's not too bad easy to wipe clean with a damp cloth too. I've only done one mash with it this way. I just carefully hosed out the tun and wiped it. Any remaning grain was sucked out with the wet/dry vac. It's more the Armflex jointing underneath the bubblewrap that's the unknown quantity.

Time will tell. h34r:

Warren -

 

[tangent]

a bloke i know had used the windshield things with some hockey straps (No#1 cause of eye injuries around the home) around his keg when he wheels it to parties.

 

[Stoodoo]

Stoodoo,

Where did you get the Pilsner Urquell yeast?? Is it a Wyeast? I've heard they have one available in the States, but haven't come across it out here yet.

Thanks,

Shawn.

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Yeah, it's a wyeast yeast. From memory, I read that there are a few pilsner urquell yeasts, and the Wyeast one is meant to be "strain B". I've propagated this yeast and split it into 4 small containers, hoping to try it out with different kits, and maybe even try a malt extract, blended with my saaz hop plugs.

Cheers