william_shakes_beer
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I have been brewing beer for 2 years. I decided to try a cider this weekend, and decided to pitch Nottingham, since I have a sample in thr fridge that I harvested from a split wort starter. Obtained some sweet cider from a local orchard (no preservatives, pasturized by heating) boiled and cooled, pitched the yeast and put it on the stir plate. 24 hrs later, nothing. Not a bubble, not a cell in site. I will turn off the stir plate overnight and see if there is anything that flocculates out, but since there is no color change, no yeast smell and no krausen, I'm pretty sure there is no yeast partying . Have I missed something? Should I thin the cider down? Everything I have read tells me that Nottingham will ferment cider just fine. Glad this is only a starter and not a 5 gallon bucket sitting there!!! I have never had a starter fail before now.