Tusz
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Hey everyone! Just getting back into brewing after a long absence from the hobby. I brewed up a brown ale on Sunday and I'm waiting on it to ferment, but the yeast isn't doing anything. It was old yeast (to the tune of around nine months), so I waited three days before calling it lost and buying a new packet. Added that last night, and I noticed a lack of any krausen at all when I opened up the pail. Cut to 24 hours later and I'm still not seeing any activity in my airlock! Does anyone have ideas as to what's going on?
Some more info: Fermentis US-05 yeast in both cases, rehydrated at ~80F (foamed up both times), sitting at around 65-68F ambient. The first packet came with the kit, and the second I bought out of the fridge at my local homebrew shop.
Some of the liquid from my airlock got sucked into the pail due to a temperature drop, but there's no way that a portion of a normal 3-piece airlock's worth of water with a little one-step in it would be able to kill my entire batch of yeast twice, is there?
Some more info: Fermentis US-05 yeast in both cases, rehydrated at ~80F (foamed up both times), sitting at around 65-68F ambient. The first packet came with the kit, and the second I bought out of the fridge at my local homebrew shop.
Some of the liquid from my airlock got sucked into the pail due to a temperature drop, but there's no way that a portion of a normal 3-piece airlock's worth of water with a little one-step in it would be able to kill my entire batch of yeast twice, is there?