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Yea it's definitely going now. Had I only used 1 yeast, I would have done a starter or rehydrated. My calculator said I didn't need to, as I achieved the correct number of cells needed for the beer I brewed using both yeasts as they were without any additional preparation.

Mine is the old style bubbler like yours with the twist lid. It usually still bubbles in the airlock.. though mine has a blowoff right now. I checked this morning and there is some krausen and bubbles forming.. it's actually bubbling a lot, just not a lot of foam yet. The yeast was around 70F...

Thank you. I will pay closer attention next time. I thought it was low enough, but I was wrong.

Should I have let it sit at 80 until it slowly got to mid 60s on its own? My basement is about 65 right now.. the water bath definitely brought it down quick.

Bahahaha well said [emoji13]

I'm looking for some sort of krausen formation and I don't see it. I'm not worried about airlock activity. Usually I see foam forming by now.

A plastic 6.5 gallon big mouth bubbler. It's in a water bath now with wet towels around the top. I just rewet the towels and it looks like it's getting a bit active. Maybe the towels dried and it got warm... idk. No airlock activity, I'm just looking at the surface.

****.. 24 hrs later and it hasn't started fermenting yet. There was a tiny ring around the top like it started but it's cleared off now

Ok. I was worried that introducing the yeast at that temp might increase lag time or something similar. Thanks everyone!

I brewed an NEIPA today (OG 1.067) and pitched a blend of WLP066 London Fog and Safale US-05. I unintentionally pitched my yeast at about 80F and it sat there for maybe an hour or so before I got it in a tote filled with cool water. It is now sitting nice at 64F and has been for about 4 or 5...

That was my mistake.. the 6.5 I had was wet when I put it in so it barely went in at all. I dried the size 6 with a clean paper towel and it fits good it's just pushed in all the way. I've gotten it to wiggle out a bit but then the pressure drops.

Great thank you. I wanted to make sure it was airtight and that no oxygen could get in. I was worried the bung isn't holding airtight. Like I said it's pretty much all way in so I don't know another solution. The size 6.5 bung is too big.

It's my first time using an S Type Airlock. I'm aging some mead. I am using 1 Gallon glass carboys and a size 6 stopper (which went in almost all the way.) My question is, what should the level of sanitizer look like inside the airlock? I'm not used to them. I'm assuming that the pressure will...

My current AG setup is basically a 15.5 gallon keggle, 12 gallon rectangle cooler MLT, and a 5 gallon kettle. I use the 5 gallon kettle primarily for heating up strike and sparge water. I was considering getting a separate 5-10 gallon cooler to act as a HLT and then maybe feed it in during the...

Pellets.

I'm probably overthinking things, but I wanted to get some opinions. I dry hopped an IPA 2 days ago (Sunday) and this morning (Tuesday) I noticed that about half of the dry hops have already settled. I don't think I've ever had this happen before. Usually they stay on top of the beer and sit...

In.. thank you!

Yes. Dumping the whole batch from vessel to vessel like that more than likely caused an incredible amount of oxygenation. It will taste/smell great at first, but soon it will become a mess, reminiscent of wet, moldy cardboard. You definitely can dry hop loose hops or pellets in the...

Same here with the volumes. I'm still getting used to tweaking all grain settings in Beersmith, so it usually calculates way too much water, which essentially waters down my wort and I end up with way too much pre and post boil volume, which in turn lowers the OG. Sigh..maybe one of these days...

In my last IPA, I got everything finished up, yeast pitched, fermenter moved downstairs, and I rigged up a blowoff tube (I anticipated an aggressive fermentation) and realized a few days later that I never cleaned/sanitized my blowoff tube..the one that I stuck right into the bung that was...