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homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


As I posted here before, I was a little torn as to what to brew next (this weekend).  Well, I've made up my mind.

I'm going to go with a standby, my Enchantress (big Irish red ale).  But I'm going to up my batch size from the normal 5.5 gallons to 7 gallons.  I'm then going to split off ~1.5 gallons of that into one of my new 2 gallon buckets.  The big batch will get temp controlled, as usual, set to 65 degrees F in my ferm chamber.

The little batch will get brought upstairs and allowed to go at ~70 degrees F (ambient).  I figure that the fermentation heat production will kick me to, say 74-76 degrees F at peak activity. 

Since I'm using WLP004 (which can throw some esters), I should be able to tell a difference between the beers.  In essence, I'm repeating this exBEERiment by Brulosopher, albeit with a different yeast.  And truly, I won't be as scientific about it as he is; I won't be fermenting in identical equipment, using identical batch sizes, and I don't have the pool of testers to administer a blinded triangle test to. 

That said, I think that it may prove to be interesting.  If nothing else, it's another data point in the ongoing discussion about the importance of temperature control.



Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by homebrewdad

Necropaw
Charter Member
Central WI
608 Posts


I hate that your ambient temp is 70 degrees :(



Posted 34 days ago.

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


>I hate that your ambient temp is 70 degrees :(

Sorry.  To be truthful, we turn the heat down at night, so it'll drift down a bit.  But I can make sure the beer stays close to 70 degrees without too much difficulty; I'd like the active ferm temps to get into the mid 70s, so as to have a real difference in play.



Posted 34 days ago.

blur_yo_face
Houston, Tx
161 Posts


Haha, I can't help but feel my beer was the inspiration for this exBEERiment..

I'm curious to see how it turns out!




Posted 34 days ago.

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


Heh.  To be fair, it was already on my list, but I need some Irish red around the house!



Posted 34 days ago.

blur_yo_face
Houston, Tx
161 Posts


I really would be interested to see if you came up with similar results.. I want to be sure my fermentation temperatures isn't the problem..



Posted 34 days ago.

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


I think that contamination is your problem, but we'll see.



Posted 34 days ago.

KidMoxie
Charter Member
San Elijo Hills, CA
405 Posts


I don't think you want to know what my ambient is...



Posted 34 days ago.

brewcrewkevin
Charter Member
Appleton, WI
66 Posts


Hah! My ambient is 63 when I'm home. Like 55 when I'm gone, 58 when I'm sleeping. 70 would make me sweat my balls off right now.



Posted 34 days ago.

Matt
Charter Member
Normal, IL
341 Posts


I'm with Kevin, ambient of 70? How do you live?



Posted 34 days ago.

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


Pregnant wife gets COLD.  House is never warm enough for her.



Posted 34 days ago.

skunkfunk
OKC, OK
38 Posts


Pregnant wife single-handedly doubled my heating bill. Now breast-feeding wife is doing the same.




Posted 34 days ago.

blur_yo_face
Houston, Tx
161 Posts


I'm not a pregnant woman, nor do I have a pregnant wife.. but my house usually stays in the 70-75 range at least, sometimes higher.. If I get out of bed in the morning and the thermostat says 68, I just want to curl right back up in warm sheets again.. growing up in Houston, I like it warm.. I wouldn't survive in the north..



Posted 34 days ago.

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