Hot day tempeture

[leedroy]

With the weather expected to reach 30 degrees today I'm a little concerned my fv tempeture will get a little too warm.

Is there a simple way to keep them around 20 degrees.

I was thinking of wrapping them in wet cold towels.

Any advice would be much appriciated.

Kind regards Lee

 

[sven945]

Wrapping in wet towels works, because the evaporation draws heat out of the FV. Make sure you keep them damp though.

 

[ericmark]

Using a fan playing on the wet towel will also help. But how much help depends on the humidity today where I live 66% so wet towels and fan would work well, but as humidity goes up they stop working as well. See http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=64293 which is all about the same thing.

 

[Delmol]

I've been keeping mine in a paddling pool!

Seems to be doing the trick

 

[leedroy]

Cheers for the swift response. Might get the paddling pool out of the shed.

Currently wrapped up in towels with the Mrs fan on them. She looked at me like I'm mad clearly doesn't share the passion

 

[SheepDog]

I had the same question, no paddling pool, so wet towels it will be, coolest room in the hounse is 25 degrees.. Don't want to ruin my landlord! I have only 3-4 days left before bottling!

 

[ericmark]

I had the same question, no paddling pool, so wet towels it will be, coolest room in the house is 25 degrees.. Don't want to ruin my landlord! I have only 3-4 days left before bottling!

With only 3-4 days left not really a problem it is already in the cleaning up stage. I do the same kit again and again Young's Scottish Heavy it takes around 20 days, first 10 is important and for that time if is in the freezer set at 19.5ºC after that it moves from freezer compartment to fridge compartment which really only has heating so at moment at 22.1ºC at 5 am this morning I got up and opened garage door to allow garage to cool, also had house front door open to cool house as well. So got garage down to 20ºC this morning so inside the insulated box of the fridge it has stayed coolish, that however does not work with early stages the fermenting gives off so much heat. Without refrigeration I would have now given up until September. As it is I am waiting for freezer space as soon as Orange Brandy clears then I have a kit cider to go on. It says ready in 48 hours, don't really believe that though.

 

[JFB]

luckily ive only a 11l imperial IPA nearly finished so its easy to fit the fv in a nice ice bath, racking on Thursday.
Then see how this weather pans out before the next brewday.