Brewlab yeast slopes

[Bunglebrewsbeer]

My house drops below it in the winter and more so when I'm at work. When I'm not it's like the tropics as the Mrs cranks the heating up to top whack!!

 

[mirsultankhan]

My house drops below it in the winter and more so when I'm at work. When I'm not it's like the tropics as the Mrs cranks the heating up to top whack!!

LOL, my wife is from India, its a 120 in the shade in our house

 

[Bunglebrewsbeer]

Haha. They are a funny breed those women. Got to love em though. She allows to me cause chaos making beer in the kitchen so can't complain too much.

 

[mirsultankhan]

That's ok as long as the ambient temperature never drops below the required fermentation level. Can you guarantee that? My house drops below 18 at night in the winter.

Ok I think I understand. One more question, do you need to disengage the fridges own thermostat?

 

[Bunglebrewsbeer]

No. Just set the temp on the stc1000 stuff the probe into the fridge and stick to FV insulating it onto it. Then plug the fridge and heater into STC and it then just turns either on when needed.

 

[mirsultankhan]

Haha. They are a funny breed those women. Got to love em though. She allows to me cause chaos making beer in the kitchen so can't complain too much.

I am training Mrs MSK up, i told her that it used to be the ladies that made beer in the house and she was into it, she boils up the DME and everything now

 

[Bunglebrewsbeer]

Happy days.

 

[mirsultankhan]

No. Just set the temp on the stc1000 stuff the probe into the fridge and stick to FV insulating it onto it. Then plug the fridge and heater into STC and it then just turns either on when needed.

Yes of course because the fridge thermo must be set to something like 5 Celsius and it would turn off only if it went below that, as we are never likely to reach that while fermentation is taking place because the STC1000 will only turn off the fridge if it reaches anything below our desired temp say 12-20 Celsius or whatever it is.

 

[mirsultankhan]

Happy days.

yes she doesn't even drink but teenage sons and friends are beer pirates!

 

[mirsultankhan]

Guys is there much of a difference if you are fermenting at say a constant 18 Celsius as opposed to one that fluctuates between say 18-22 Celsius, would you notice it in the finished beer?

 

[Bunglebrewsbeer]

People know far more than me on that but a yeast I used in a beer got a bit of a high temp at some point in fermentation which added some taste/flavour of the yeast used.

 

[MyQul]

Guys is there much of a difference if you are fermenting at say a constant 18 Celsius as opposed to one that fluctuates between say 18-22 Celsius, would you notice it in the finished beer?

Yes there will be. depending on the Yeast temps upper limits, you'll get fruity esters at 22C but at 18C the yeast will be cleaner (less or no esters dependant on strain)

 

[DanST]

No. Just set the temp on the stc1000 stuff the probe into the fridge and stick to FV insulating it onto it. Then plug the fridge and heater into STC and it then just turns either on when needed.

Sorry to go off topic but do all stc1000's work this way? Through the mains plug or are they sometimes wired in directly to the controller?

Please excuse if this is a daft question. A brew fridge is on my to do list but I'm currently just reading up about it/trying to acquire a big enough fridge without paying for it.

 

[McMullan]

Sorry to go off topic but do all stc1000's work this way? Through the mains plug or are they sometimes wired in directly to the controller?

Please excuse if this is a daft question. A brew fridge is on my to do list but I'm currently just reading up about it/trying to acquire a big enough fridge without paying for it.

You can 'hard' wire your fridge and heating source directly in the controller or wire some sockets, a 'hot' and 'cold'. Sockets give you more flexibility.