Ok so I've been making home brew kits for a long time however I've been unhappy with some of the off flavours I've had recently and I think it's due to temperature control in the summer. Far too hot during the day for instance. Anyway one of our big upright freezers has packed in so I've decided to use that as a homebrew vessel. I've stripped most of the cooling pipes out as it wasn't working anyway. I've left two shelves in for the buckets to sit on, fitted a heater and have connected an Inkbird temperature controller to control the temperature. The question I've got is what is the ideal temperature for brewing these homebrew kits at. I've set it at 19.5°c with a 1°c lower temp so it will start to heat at 18.5 and shut off at 19.5. Does that sound about right? I always leave the kit for at least two if not three weeks to ensure fermentation is complete.
I then transfer to a Corny keg crash cool it in my beer fridge and connect it to my beer tap.
Any advice on what else I can do to improve these kits is always helpful.
Thanks.
Norrie.
I then transfer to a Corny keg crash cool it in my beer fridge and connect it to my beer tap.
Any advice on what else I can do to improve these kits is always helpful.
Thanks.
Norrie.