Dead Yeast or Bacteria?

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jontanner

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This yellowish stuff (what the yeast looked like when I put it in) forming on the top of the wort. I'm pretty sure it's the yeast.

That means it's dead...right?

The yeast I used was like 2 month old liquid yeast...so it's basically gaurenteed dead.

I'm just making sure this is no bacterial thing.
 
A picture would help us determine if you're worrying for nothing or not, but it sounds like you're getting krausen aka yeast doing it's normal thing.

Just because yeast is old doesn't mean that it's dead. I just means that it takes longer for it to take off. I've used yeast from January of this year, and it worked fine, although it did take a bit longer for it to start up.
 
Haha, yeah, I feel really stupid now.

It's definately the yeast. It's doing it's thing.

Yay. I'm excited now.
 
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