Randomnoob
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For the second time I used Wyeast package of yeast. I have been storing it in my fridge for two weeks before hand. The first time everything went fine, packaged swelled up and i saw activity the next morning even though I pitched it a bit too warm.
I got the package out of the fridge around 7:45 yesterday morning, I let it sit on my kitchen counter until 11:00 when I broke the inner packet and shook it to mix the nutrient and stuff. It didn't swell very much. I chilled the wort to under 75 and pitched the yeast at 3:15 in the afternoon. The mfg date is May 6, 2013.
This morning I checked it and there was no krausen. There was a thin layer of bubbles and that was it. Of the first five batches I've brewed, two of them had blowoff the next morning and the other three had a couple inches of krausen the next morning.
Should I give it until tomorrow morning to start doing something? Could it be a problem with sanitation, even though I did sanitize everything the same way I did the first five times I brewed. If nothing happens by tomorrow morning should I go to the LHBS and pick up another package of yeast?
I got the package out of the fridge around 7:45 yesterday morning, I let it sit on my kitchen counter until 11:00 when I broke the inner packet and shook it to mix the nutrient and stuff. It didn't swell very much. I chilled the wort to under 75 and pitched the yeast at 3:15 in the afternoon. The mfg date is May 6, 2013.
This morning I checked it and there was no krausen. There was a thin layer of bubbles and that was it. Of the first five batches I've brewed, two of them had blowoff the next morning and the other three had a couple inches of krausen the next morning.
Should I give it until tomorrow morning to start doing something? Could it be a problem with sanitation, even though I did sanitize everything the same way I did the first five times I brewed. If nothing happens by tomorrow morning should I go to the LHBS and pick up another package of yeast?