Oktoberfest Ale

[dmtaylor (Dave Taylor)]

It’s almost done but not quite.  Just a little patience.  Yeah.

[deadpoetic0077]

Let it go until it is finished. More time won’t hurt it.

If it’s still dropping its not done.

So keeping it at the room temp shouldn’t hurt it? seemed to me that really the first few days were the most critical for temp. But room temp for longer periods of time shouldn’t produce any off flavor?

[jonhughey_att.net (HoosierBrew)]

@deadpoetic0077

Let it go until it is finished. More time won’t hurt it.

If it’s still dropping its not done.

So keeping it at the room temp shouldn’t hurt it? seemed to me that really the first few days were the most critical for temp. But room temp for longer periods of time shouldn’t produce any off flavor?

No, it’ll be fine at warm temps for a few more weeks even. You really want to let the yeast eat every bit of sugar that they can, to give you the drinkability that an Ofest should have. Keep checking FG every couple days until you start getting consistent readings. Then letting the beer sit a few days after FG to let the yeast clean up fermentation byproducts is a good practice, too.

Edit - The beer doesn’t need to sit for weeks by any means. Just saying that autolysis wouldn’t be an issue in the short term.

[deadpoetic0077]

@deadpoetic0077

Let it go until it is finished. More time won’t hurt it.

If it’s still dropping its not done.

So keeping it at the room temp shouldn’t hurt it? seemed to me that really the first few days were the most critical for temp. But room temp for longer periods of time shouldn’t produce any off flavor?

No, it’ll be fine at warm temps for a few more weeks even. You really want to let the yeast eat every bit of sugar that they can, to give you the drinkability that an Ofest should have. Keep checking FG every couple days until you start getting consistent readings. Then letting the beer sit a few days after FG to let the yeast clean up fermentation byproducts is a good practice, too.

Edit - The beer doesn’t need to sit for weeks by any means. Just saying that autolysis wouldn’t be an issue in the short term.

Thanks! That’s what I was hoping to hear! Thanks!