kyle5434
Trying to fuse frugal/pragmatic with good results
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I have a room in an unheated, non-air-conditioned basement where my carboys sit to do a bit of aging. Because of limited space, I'm only aging in the carboys for around 3 months before bottling.
During the cold of winter, this room hovered in the upper 50s to lower 60s. With the abnormally warm temps we've been having recently (upper 80s), that room is now hovering around 70. (I have a walk-out basement, so one external wall of this room - facing east - is not underground at all and has a couple of windows with the blinds kept shut). I never kept a thermometer down there before, but I imagine it could get into the upper 70s - perhaps even low 80s - in there come August.
Is that going to create a problem, or excessively adverse conditions, for 3-month bulk aging?
I should state that the room where I keep the wine after bottling doesn't get much above 65 or 70 in the hottest part of the summer, but it doesn't have room for the carboys too.
I'm just trying to gauge if I should put the brakes on any more new batches until the fall.
During the cold of winter, this room hovered in the upper 50s to lower 60s. With the abnormally warm temps we've been having recently (upper 80s), that room is now hovering around 70. (I have a walk-out basement, so one external wall of this room - facing east - is not underground at all and has a couple of windows with the blinds kept shut). I never kept a thermometer down there before, but I imagine it could get into the upper 70s - perhaps even low 80s - in there come August.
Is that going to create a problem, or excessively adverse conditions, for 3-month bulk aging?
I should state that the room where I keep the wine after bottling doesn't get much above 65 or 70 in the hottest part of the summer, but it doesn't have room for the carboys too.
I'm just trying to gauge if I should put the brakes on any more new batches until the fall.
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