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im on my first lager as well, coincidentally a czech pils. i was told to rack it over after the cake on the bottom got to be 1.5 -2" thick even if the primary phase wasn't over with - currently it has a decent amount of bubbles coming up from the cake on the bottom, so i dont want to...

Same thing here on underpitching lager, learned my lesson. Its been almost 5 days and I havent seen a whole ton of activity. The airlock is bubbling super slow (1 bubble every 2 minutes), it has a layer of krausen, and i can see a decent amount of small co2 bubbles rising from the bottom, but...

my guess is that it was to propagate the yeast more quickly, since there wasn't much to begin with, and once action started, to cool it down.... although pitching at the temp you eventually want for fermentation, like you say, makes more sense. hopefully this thing starts rolling in the next...

First Lager here as well, nothing is going down yet, approaching 24hrs... I used liquid yeast right out of the package, seems like the liquid yeast has a slow start? I was told to keep it warmer until fermentation just starts then drop the temp to 50. On a side note, I've got a vacuum (its...