rcd
Well-Known Member
Sunday I brewed my second batch of beer so far. I pitched the yeast (a Wyeast Activator), waited about 36-40 hours, but had no fermentation, so I went and found what I could, a White Labs tube (both the Weast and White Labs were London ale, so not anything drastically different).
So I pitched that and then had fermentation about 8 hours later.
So I was wondering whether the first pitch was bad after all, or what. And if not, what will happen having double the yeast in there? Will it matter?
And while I'm on that topic, I might as well ask, how do you determine how much yeast you need, anyway? Seems like recipes just call for one tube, one activator, 100 billion cells... whatever... is there some formula or just "put a bunch"?
Thanks a ton.
So I pitched that and then had fermentation about 8 hours later.
So I was wondering whether the first pitch was bad after all, or what. And if not, what will happen having double the yeast in there? Will it matter?
And while I'm on that topic, I might as well ask, how do you determine how much yeast you need, anyway? Seems like recipes just call for one tube, one activator, 100 billion cells... whatever... is there some formula or just "put a bunch"?
Thanks a ton.