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Cold Wort - Warm Yeast
gmac:
Any danger pitching room temperature yeast starters into cold wort? At this time of year, it's probably 1 to 2 degrees above freezing in my garage and I sometimes make beer at the end of the day, chill it down to 70 or so with an immersion chiller and let it sit overnight in the cold to allow the hot break and hops to settle out before transferring to a bucket or carboy. I've had good luck with this but now it's really cold and I'm wondering if there is any detriment to pitching room temp yeast into this cold wort. Ideally, I would remember to put the yeast starter in the garage at the same time and let it get cold but sometimes I forget.
After pitching I move them to the basement that is a nice even 66 degrees. I could let the beer warm up before pitching but I'd prefer to have yeast in there in order to compete if there are any bacteria etc that the star-san missed.
Thanks
beersk:
How cold is the wort? You don't want to pitch too low or the yeast will go dormant.
denny:
Supposedly cold yeast into warm wort is good, warm yeast into cold wort not so good....but I'll be damned if I can remember exactly why.
hokerer:
--- Quote from: denny on January 18, 2013, 12:31:29 pm ---Supposedly cold yeast into warm wort is good, warm yeast into cold wort not so good....but I'll be damned if I can remember exactly why.
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Something about liquor on beer or beer on liquor.... oh wait
beersk:
--- Quote from: hokerer on January 18, 2013, 01:06:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: denny on January 18, 2013, 12:31:29 pm ---Supposedly cold yeast into warm wort is good, warm yeast into cold wort not so good....but I'll be damned if I can remember exactly why.
--- End quote ---
Something about liquor on beer or beer on liquor.... oh wait
--- End quote ---
No, man, it's before...liquor before beer...
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