Trying to make a hard limeade for my wife and her friends. I've been brewing for 4 years have never had problem getting fermention to start. I went to local hbs store they suggested using lalvin 1118 for my yeast for this. So here is my reciepe as well as what I did.
10 cans limeade concentrate.
10 lbs cane sugar
4 gallons purified water'
Lalvin 1118 yeast.
5 campden tablets.
I combined the 10 cans of concentrate, 10 lbs of sugar and 3 gallons of water together inmy bottling bucket. I transfered this over into 5 gallon carboy droped 5 campden tablets in per instruction from lbs to kill any nasty that might be in sugar let sit for 30 hours then rehydrated yeast with 2 tbs of yeast nutrient. I added this to fermenter as well as 3 more tbs of nutrient and another pkg of lalvin 1118 yeast. Went to bed this was around 1 am got up at 8 and had all kinds of limeade form in airlock. Cleaned out airlock and when I got back home 12 hrs later I had no action in fermenter. I took my stirrer that hooks to drill and stirred this for 5 minutes.
and reattached air lock. Got up next morning still nothing as far as air lock. I restired again and didn't get any action again in 12 hours. I got up the next morning and stirred the limeade and added a pkg of nottingham yeast and now that it has been 2 days and I'm still not seeing anything I need HELP!!
What do I need to do to get fermention started.
10 cans limeade concentrate.
10 lbs cane sugar
4 gallons purified water'
Lalvin 1118 yeast.
5 campden tablets.
I combined the 10 cans of concentrate, 10 lbs of sugar and 3 gallons of water together inmy bottling bucket. I transfered this over into 5 gallon carboy droped 5 campden tablets in per instruction from lbs to kill any nasty that might be in sugar let sit for 30 hours then rehydrated yeast with 2 tbs of yeast nutrient. I added this to fermenter as well as 3 more tbs of nutrient and another pkg of lalvin 1118 yeast. Went to bed this was around 1 am got up at 8 and had all kinds of limeade form in airlock. Cleaned out airlock and when I got back home 12 hrs later I had no action in fermenter. I took my stirrer that hooks to drill and stirred this for 5 minutes.
and reattached air lock. Got up next morning still nothing as far as air lock. I restired again and didn't get any action again in 12 hours. I got up the next morning and stirred the limeade and added a pkg of nottingham yeast and now that it has been 2 days and I'm still not seeing anything I need HELP!!
What do I need to do to get fermention started.