I rehydrated and pitched yeast Sunday at noonish. Here it is Monday at 4:00 pm and realized I forgot to aerate. Fermentation temp is about 58 degrees. I pitched at 68 degrees. There is no activity in air lock. Is it too late to aerate?
forgot to aerate wort.
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I wouldn't aerate. It could cause oxidation. When you poured the wort into the fermentation bucket did you let it splash a bit?
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yes, it's too late. Aerating is important but not entirely necessary. If anything, your temp is too low, try and bring it up to 64 or 65.
I don't know for sure (I use liquid yeast), but I thought I saw that aeration was not necessary with dry yeast. They have everything need to get started and reproduce.
You might want to try searching the past threads.
You might want to try searching the past threads.
I did let it splash around quite a bit when I put it in the fridge. I had to move the fridge around while it was in there so I'm sure it sloshed around a good bit.
Yeah, its hard to control the temp. I have it in a fridge and I'm having to manually control the temp. I check on it 3 times a day and unplug the fridge as needed.
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Will do. Thank you.
Since you pitched rehydrated dry yeast, you're fine. Dry yeast is packaged with sterols which provide sufficient O2 to get the cells through the initial aerobic phase during which they are primarily spawning new cells.
I would not aerate it at this point. There's a good chance that it has already transitioned to anaerobic fermentation.
Don't worry about the lack of bubbles. Unless you rehydrated in water hot enough to kill the yeast, they're in there doing their thing. Give it 10 days and take a hydro reading. If you want to check for krausen in the bucket, do so with a flashlight shone onto the opposite side.
I would not aerate it at this point. There's a good chance that it has already transitioned to anaerobic fermentation.
Don't worry about the lack of bubbles. Unless you rehydrated in water hot enough to kill the yeast, they're in there doing their thing. Give it 10 days and take a hydro reading. If you want to check for krausen in the bucket, do so with a flashlight shone onto the opposite side.
