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Just for a little update - after pitching more yeast on the 21st of July, fermentation kicked into gear quite vigorously, so I do think we did not have nearly enough yeast as well as it not being fresh enough - though my boyfriend was incorrect on the date; it was OCTOBER 2015 best by, not...

Sorry, I know ;) I wasn't able to check when I was responding at that time. The use by date is 8/15. We pitched another 2 vials of yeast with no starter because we didn't want to wait a couple of days for the starter. The temperature is around 58 and it was fermenting vigorously when I left for...

We ended up raising the temperature to around 60F and we're seeing some activity. It's slow but definitely there, so I think we are going to pitch some more yeast, keep the temp up to a steady but higher temperature and see what happens. I'm not opposed to waiting it out for a bit to see what...

We're relatively new to home brewing, but have done multiple successful batches, and we took the chance and brewed a lager. I felt like we did a ton of research on them, even picking up an extra fridge to use for temperature control, and setup a thermometer and temperature controller to keep it...