drymartini
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Yesterday, I tried my hands on making 1.5 gallons of mead. I got all the ingredients ready, did my boil, put my must in my fermentation bucket. And at that point I realized that I forgot to get some wine yeast and the home-brew store is closed. But the day before, I had started a batch of wheat beer which was bubbling away in another fermentation bucket. The spent yeast packet was still sitting there and a had just a small amount of yeast still in it.
I pitched it figuring that the exponential rate of growth would mean that it would work out to be about the same amount of time + a few minutes to a couple of hours at most. It has been 20 hours and there are no bubbles in the airlock. Three questions :
* Is there something wrong in my thinking about pitching the small amount of yeast?
* The home-brew store is closed until Tuesday, which means that the earliest I will be able to get some wine yeast will be more than 72 hour from starting the batch. Is that too late to re-pitch?
* If yes, is there anything I can do at this point to save this batch from spoilage?
Thanks for any help.
I pitched it figuring that the exponential rate of growth would mean that it would work out to be about the same amount of time + a few minutes to a couple of hours at most. It has been 20 hours and there are no bubbles in the airlock. Three questions :
* Is there something wrong in my thinking about pitching the small amount of yeast?
* The home-brew store is closed until Tuesday, which means that the earliest I will be able to get some wine yeast will be more than 72 hour from starting the batch. Is that too late to re-pitch?
* If yes, is there anything I can do at this point to save this batch from spoilage?
Thanks for any help.