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heres an update. at the 75 hour mark last night i decided to give it a good mixin`. i shook the heck outta the carboy and got the sediment to be throughout the whole wort. i woke up this morning and it was bubbling. i guess lesson learned is that yeast will still take off with the activator...

it has been 72 hours now and there is still no airlock activity. there is a small film on the top of the wort and alot of sediment and floaties in the bottom. should i repitch some yeast? i don`t have any dry yeast but i do have a packet of fat tire in a smack pack. should i refilter the old...

This was my third time using a liquid yeast smack pack. the other two times there was definately an activator inside to punchure, and then after three hours the pouch would be expanded. This time i think it had been already activated sometime in the past as it was broken when i openned it. I did...

yesterday i used a smack pack yeast (2112 calafornia lager). when i went to activate it, it seemed that the inner packet(activator) had already been broken. it hadn`t raised in 3 hours, but i decided RDWHAHB, and used it anyways. its been over 24 hours now and there is no noticable activity. the...

thanks for the greetings. i will see you all out on the main boards. oh, BTW.... GO BREWERS!

hello all. my name is Jimmy and i live in So. Wisco. i am fairly new to brewing and look forward to learning all i can about this great passion.