AG 9 - Effin Erdinger Ish

[fbsf]

Right - finally time to get the brewfridge doing what it was meant to. Controlling a brew!

I went with a rough estimation of Aleman's Effin Erdinger recipe:

3kg Wheat Malt
1.5kg Crisp Maris Otter
1kg Crisp Lager Malt

Mashed for 2.5hrs at 67C with a 60min batch sparge (yeah - not my idea. Had dropped the missus and sprog off, thinking I had two hours spare, and started the sparge only to get a phonecall to say what they were at had been cancelled so could I pick them up again).

Boiled for 90 mins with:
14g Perle (10% AA) @ 90mins
10g Saaz (4.1% AA) @ 45mins
10g Saaz (4.1% AA) @ 15mins
1/2 tablet protofloc and cooler in at 15mins.

Ended up with 22L of 1.054 (intended was 23L at 1.051, so close enough!), but I've now got a quandry.

Aleman says to get the temp down to 12 degrees and pitch the packet of WB-06, then let the temperature slowly rise over four days. However I could only get my cooler to cool the wort down to about 33C, so I airlocked the FV and put it in the fridge set to COLD!

Is it going to be safe to leave it cooling in there until it gets down to 12C, or should I get the yeast in there once it gets below about 25, to save infection?

Any views lads/lasses?

 

[andybrew]

leave it to get cold

I've left mine in FV overnight before pitching the yeast with no ill effects

 

[fbsf]

Cheers Andy - that was the reassurance I needed! I've been very careful with hygiene, so fingers crossed it will survive without any nasties until the morning!!