I am fairly certain it is dead, however I have never had a batch of yeast die on me since I used to live a mile from a homebrew store. I have recently moved so I am forced to order yeast.
Anyways, I ordered wlp004 and wlp815, Irish ale and Belgian lager. It took a full week to get in because of delays and low and behold, it was 100 degrees the day it was delivered and sat on my porch for about 3 hours before I could get home from work. I was not confident at all with this but decided to build a starter anyways just to see. After a day nothing was happening so I turned my stir plate off and sat it on the counter to dump it, when I then decided to pour myself a beer and forgot about it. I came back about an hour later and it had a little foam on top of it... so I then decided to put it back on the stir plate. About an hour later it had about an inch of foam on top. Yes! It's not dead! Well then another hour later the foam was gone and now it just looks like a starter that is done. Has anybody had an experiance similar to this? I am trying to get everything to settle and take a gravity reading of it
Anyways, I ordered wlp004 and wlp815, Irish ale and Belgian lager. It took a full week to get in because of delays and low and behold, it was 100 degrees the day it was delivered and sat on my porch for about 3 hours before I could get home from work. I was not confident at all with this but decided to build a starter anyways just to see. After a day nothing was happening so I turned my stir plate off and sat it on the counter to dump it, when I then decided to pour myself a beer and forgot about it. I came back about an hour later and it had a little foam on top of it... so I then decided to put it back on the stir plate. About an hour later it had about an inch of foam on top. Yes! It's not dead! Well then another hour later the foam was gone and now it just looks like a starter that is done. Has anybody had an experiance similar to this? I am trying to get everything to settle and take a gravity reading of it