So I brewed my first AG batch Sunday afternoon, and pitched the yeast at about 6:00 in the evening. It's now Wednesday night and there is zero sign of fermentation activity-nothing from the airlock, and when I opened my bucket there is no krausen or anything on top of the wort. It was a Wyeast 1056 smack pack that inflated just fine, the pack looked like it was about to burst when I pitched it.
I'm now thinking my thermometer was the issue, and that I pitched it too hot. It read 85 degrees in the boil kettle before I dumped the wort into the fermentor, but now I'm wondering if it was too hot. I'm testing the thermometer at the moment, but it's currently reading 94 degrees F in a glass of ice water, so something is clearly wrong with it . Now I'm worried my mash temperatures might have been way off as well, but I suppose there's no way to know that now.
So, since it's been 3 full days with zero ferm activity, should I drop by my LHBS and pick up another yeast pack and dump it in?
I'm now thinking my thermometer was the issue, and that I pitched it too hot. It read 85 degrees in the boil kettle before I dumped the wort into the fermentor, but now I'm wondering if it was too hot. I'm testing the thermometer at the moment, but it's currently reading 94 degrees F in a glass of ice water, so something is clearly wrong with it . Now I'm worried my mash temperatures might have been way off as well, but I suppose there's no way to know that now.
So, since it's been 3 full days with zero ferm activity, should I drop by my LHBS and pick up another yeast pack and dump it in?