silver02ws6
Well-Known Member
Let me start by saying i have never had a fermentation not start overnight. Only done a half dozen brews but still never had it happen.
In preparation for my latest brew i did lots of reading on the forum on best practices ect. I decided to try and control the fermentation temperature by placing the carboy in a little water with a fan blowing on it in the coldest room in the house ( I live in FL its 100 degrees outside)
I followed everything else as usual. My smack pack expanded just fine. I had put it in the fridge the night before brewing got it out at the start of the brew to let it warm back up. I pitched it at about 5 p.m. EST on sunday the beer was around 75 degrees. Have seen zero airlock activity.
Last night i moved the beer back to my normal fermenting location and swirled the beer around to suspend the yeast again hoping that the elevated temp would wake everyone up but got nothing. The stick on thermometer is reading 68 this morning which is in normal range. It was down to the 64-66 range last night.. I didn't think i had gotten the beer that cold but it looks like I put it to sleep.
Im pretty sure at this point i just need to re pitch a new pack of wyeast 1332 into it and let it go to work. Is that the case? Im going to do whatever i can to salvage this one, its the first batch going into the new kegging system.
Thanks for any help in advance.
In preparation for my latest brew i did lots of reading on the forum on best practices ect. I decided to try and control the fermentation temperature by placing the carboy in a little water with a fan blowing on it in the coldest room in the house ( I live in FL its 100 degrees outside)
I followed everything else as usual. My smack pack expanded just fine. I had put it in the fridge the night before brewing got it out at the start of the brew to let it warm back up. I pitched it at about 5 p.m. EST on sunday the beer was around 75 degrees. Have seen zero airlock activity.
Last night i moved the beer back to my normal fermenting location and swirled the beer around to suspend the yeast again hoping that the elevated temp would wake everyone up but got nothing. The stick on thermometer is reading 68 this morning which is in normal range. It was down to the 64-66 range last night.. I didn't think i had gotten the beer that cold but it looks like I put it to sleep.
Im pretty sure at this point i just need to re pitch a new pack of wyeast 1332 into it and let it go to work. Is that the case? Im going to do whatever i can to salvage this one, its the first batch going into the new kegging system.
Thanks for any help in advance.