WoofdogABC
Active Member
First AG batch, things went reasonably well until pitching. I think some yeast shipments cooked; pitched 2 smack packs which had only marginally inflated in 24 hours. after 60 hours, no gravity change (1051 og). had a 14-hour old 1-liter stirplate starter on hand I was going ot use for something else, pitched it (too early?) this starter was from a white labs vial which had had the coolpack include. that was 48 hours ago, and still *no* gravity change. wort is 4 1/2 days post-boil now. I have done numerous extract batches now and while I have already found issues with the smack packs, starters have always caused batches to take off.
options? I have a 36-hour old stirplate-starter I made to replace the one I used to repitch this. I also have a pack of safale s-04 here.
when pitching from a starter, how can I tell if the current starter is viable at all, or if damaged yeasts were used?
I think the underlying yeast issue is that 1) my yeast is shipped to an agency that then reships to me from miami, adding a few days to the procees in heat and 2) northern brewer did not put the yeast I used in the initial pitch with a cool pack when they shipped (thus the smack packs were cooked). The white labs vial used with the starter did have one former coolpack in the packet with it.
options? I have a 36-hour old stirplate-starter I made to replace the one I used to repitch this. I also have a pack of safale s-04 here.
when pitching from a starter, how can I tell if the current starter is viable at all, or if damaged yeasts were used?
I think the underlying yeast issue is that 1) my yeast is shipped to an agency that then reships to me from miami, adding a few days to the procees in heat and 2) northern brewer did not put the yeast I used in the initial pitch with a cool pack when they shipped (thus the smack packs were cooked). The white labs vial used with the starter did have one former coolpack in the packet with it.