By wet t-shirt, do you mean placing the fermenter in a tub of water,
draping the t-shirt over the fermenter and into the water?


(Don S) wrote in message . com>...
> >
> > If you're making reds, you don't need the temperature lower than that. Reds
> > sometimes hit 100°F during peak fermentation, and that's no problem as long
> > as the yeast don't die.
>
> There's also the ability to use the wet t-shirt technique to
> bring the temperature down. Which you might want to use for
> whites in any case. If your ambient is high and your humidity
> low it can bring down the temperature by 10 to 20 F fairly
> easy.
>
> Don