CowboyShootist
Well-Known Member
Greetings,
This is my third batch of Extract beer. The first was a simple Ale, the second a Honey Lager and this batch is an American Wheat.
In the first 2 cases fermentation started pretty quickly (less than 24 hrs) and was relatively vigorous and then slowed to a crawl. This particular batch has taken a full 24 hours to start and it's relatively slow as well, bubbles about every 5-10 secs or so.
In this batch I did use liquid yeast starter, a Wyeast 3056 Bavarian Wheat. I smacked the package and after about 2 hours the package didn't seem very "plump" and the wort was at about 68F so I dumped the package into the fermentation bucket. I did areate vigorously and sealed it up.
Temp in the house has been between 68-70 so that doesn't seem to be an issue. My blow off tube is a 7/16 OD plastic tube into a nalgene bottle of pure water. I am wondering if I should toss another package of yeast into the fermenter? It is fermenting now but nowhere near what I would have expected.
If you have any advice or comments I'd love to hear from you.
Cheers
TC
This is my third batch of Extract beer. The first was a simple Ale, the second a Honey Lager and this batch is an American Wheat.
In the first 2 cases fermentation started pretty quickly (less than 24 hrs) and was relatively vigorous and then slowed to a crawl. This particular batch has taken a full 24 hours to start and it's relatively slow as well, bubbles about every 5-10 secs or so.
In this batch I did use liquid yeast starter, a Wyeast 3056 Bavarian Wheat. I smacked the package and after about 2 hours the package didn't seem very "plump" and the wort was at about 68F so I dumped the package into the fermentation bucket. I did areate vigorously and sealed it up.
Temp in the house has been between 68-70 so that doesn't seem to be an issue. My blow off tube is a 7/16 OD plastic tube into a nalgene bottle of pure water. I am wondering if I should toss another package of yeast into the fermenter? It is fermenting now but nowhere near what I would have expected.
If you have any advice or comments I'd love to hear from you.
Cheers
TC