After years of brewing i just ran into my first 3 day lag phase for a stout to start fermenting.
Its sort of mysterious. Normal, unevental brewday. Im brewing two, 15 gallon batches, each brew day currently. Each batch has yeast grown from a slant, that came from a clean plate, and stepped up by 10x each step up. Normal, healthy starters, normal aeriation techniques.
Except this last session i had still wort for 3 days, while the other tank from the brew day had an IPA ripping away. The yeast was WY1028 London Ale.
When i checked on the tank the day after pitching and saw no activity and no drop in gravity i roused it up in case the 1028 flocced and dropped. Next day and same thing i top cropped from the IPA tank. Third day i roused again and now the stout is cranking away.
The thing that bothers me is since i top cropped with Pacman i dont know if the 1028 started up, or the tank is going off with just the pacman.
Wierd
Its sort of mysterious. Normal, unevental brewday. Im brewing two, 15 gallon batches, each brew day currently. Each batch has yeast grown from a slant, that came from a clean plate, and stepped up by 10x each step up. Normal, healthy starters, normal aeriation techniques.
Except this last session i had still wort for 3 days, while the other tank from the brew day had an IPA ripping away. The yeast was WY1028 London Ale.
When i checked on the tank the day after pitching and saw no activity and no drop in gravity i roused it up in case the 1028 flocced and dropped. Next day and same thing i top cropped from the IPA tank. Third day i roused again and now the stout is cranking away.
The thing that bothers me is since i top cropped with Pacman i dont know if the 1028 started up, or the tank is going off with just the pacman.
Wierd
