DutchK9
Well-Known Member
I was planning on brewing a hefe Wednesday and started my liquid starter on Saturday night. I used 400ml water and 1/2 cup light DME and boiled it for 20 minutes. Then chilled to 70* and added my WYeast 3068 WHNSTPHN W yeast to the batch and put it on my homemade spinner.
On the last yeast batch I made for my Sierra Nevada Pal Ale, the next morning the beaker was over flowing from fermentation activity. But on this batch all I saw was spinning wort. The things I did different were, instead of putting on an airlock, I put on some foil that loosely covered the opening, and didn't put in the yeast fuel thinking I would save it for the primary fermentation.
After seeing what looked like no activity, I added the fuel packet and kept it spinning. Later that night it still looked as if nothing was working, so I gave it a 30 second shot of oxygen and stopped the spinner until last night where I started it again but very slowly and put an airlock on it so I can look for bubbles. Now it is Monday morning and still I have nothing. I know it can take up to 72 hours according to some of the things I have read on the forum, but since a Hefe is a beer that has high fermentation, shouldn't I have seen something by now?
On the last yeast batch I made for my Sierra Nevada Pal Ale, the next morning the beaker was over flowing from fermentation activity. But on this batch all I saw was spinning wort. The things I did different were, instead of putting on an airlock, I put on some foil that loosely covered the opening, and didn't put in the yeast fuel thinking I would save it for the primary fermentation.
After seeing what looked like no activity, I added the fuel packet and kept it spinning. Later that night it still looked as if nothing was working, so I gave it a 30 second shot of oxygen and stopped the spinner until last night where I started it again but very slowly and put an airlock on it so I can look for bubbles. Now it is Monday morning and still I have nothing. I know it can take up to 72 hours according to some of the things I have read on the forum, but since a Hefe is a beer that has high fermentation, shouldn't I have seen something by now?