As I have written before, you can use a heating pad to keep your fermentations warm in the winter.  Well, you can also use a heating pad if you are in the middle of Saison fermentation.

We have been blessed with hot weather all summer long here in the Northeast.  Of course, things start to cool down right when I need the heat most.

It’s kinda like putting snow tires on your car.  Once you put them on, it doesn’t snow…or something like that.

I have the fermentation bucket sitting on top of the heating pad.  I set the pad on the medium setting at night and the low setting during the day.

The front closet air temperatures are in the high 70s, so I don’t think it takes much to get the wort up above 80°F.

The plan is to take a gravity reading on Wednesday.  If it is below 1.010, then I feel like I can either rack it to a secondary vessel or bottle it straight away.   I think it depends on what I think I can get clean and sanitized by Sunday.