need a little hepl.....AGAIN - Page 2

MSbrewer · 07-09-2008, 01:10 AM

Would love too except not much round here but cotton, corn, and soybeans

Donasay · 07-09-2008, 01:25 AM

well pretty much any dry yeast will make it beer, as to it fitting your style, not so much. You should always keep a packet of dry yeast around for situations like this. Even if you don't get exactly what you wanted the stuff will be drinkable and not bad.

I did have to throw some fermentis T58 into an english bitter the other day because I forgot to buy the correct yeast when I was at the lhbs.

inhifistereo · 07-09-2008, 02:15 PM

I say give it a few more days. Patience is a virtue when it comes to brewing...

TheFlatline · 07-09-2008, 08:08 PM

Out of curiosity, how old was the smack pack? They suggest letting it sit post-smack for 24 hours for every month that the thing is old before you pitch. I pitched a smack pack that was 2 months old, and it took a day and a half before starting to outgas.

Plus, with the yeast attenuation calculator someone posted, it turns out a 2 month old smack pack only has about 54% yeast survival rate or something surprising like that.

After running the numbers and pitching liquid yeast a couple times, I'm going to make starters 100% of the time from now on if I use liquid yeast.

Thank god the not-so-LHBS has absurdly fresh yeast. I picked up the fixings for a fat tire clone and the yeast smack pack was less than a week old!

**DeathBrewer** · 07-09-2008, 08:22 PM

leave it or pitch more yeast. i personally would just pitch some dry ale yeast and make a kolsch then next time around.

MSbrewer · 07-10-2008, 12:19 AM

I thank you guys for the info.....I brought the temp up in my lagering fridge to 70F and when I got home from work, well I GOT SOME ACTION.....I know you experienced guys might get a little tired of us (noobs-semi noobs) asking all these questions, but I really appreciate it!!!!!!!!!!!! By the way..Just opened a BIG package from AHB......3 more extract recipes...Think I might switch to all grain next mont..that is if the wife doesnt kill me first!!