WB06 is hot

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WB06 is hot

Post by Graham.C » Tue Mar 05, 2013 11:19 am

Holy crap,

My "fermentation room" is 16C, or at least that's what the IPA in there that is conditioning reads on the carboy. I put a wizenbock (OG: 1.092) in to ferment Sunday night and came home from work yesterday to the blowoff tube's bucket blowing up and it looking like a crazy party in the carboy (around 24h). I checked the temp and their metabolic activity raised the ferment up to 20C. If those little party goers got so rambunctious that they ended up with excessive banana I'm going to be pissed. I was not expecting a 4C jump in temp. I have never used this yeast before. WB-06, which I guess is actually a wit but NG was out of Heff last time.

Anyways I just wanted to share. :cheers:
-Graham

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Re: WB06 is hot

Post by mr x » Tue Mar 05, 2013 12:31 pm

That big gravity certainly will aggravate the temp rise.
At Alexander Keith's we follow the recipes first developed by the great brewmaster to the absolute letter. :wtf:

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Re: WB06 is hot

Post by Graham.C » Tue Mar 05, 2013 1:42 pm

I have never had such a rise before, then again I typically don't do beers this big. Perhaps last time I did it I just failed to notice.
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