WB06 is hot
Posted: 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.
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.