I did my first extract brew and it seemed to go pretty well...until I moved from the boil pot to the fermenter. I used a siphon so I could try to leave behind the stuff at the bottom of the pot (hops, cold break). So like no aeration from that transfer.
Then I added water to my fermenter (did a partial boil), I don't remember being super careful about splashes but I definitely didn't pour in hard and definitely didn't stir very hard.
I pretty much hit my target temp perfectly was looking for 21c and got 21.5c. Was busy patting myself on the back about that and just put my dry yeast (Safale S04) in and immediately I thought it was kind of odd because it just sank to the bottom where past brews it floated on the top.
There was like 0 action for the first 24 hours and I wasn't too worried about that because I have read that sometimes it takes a bit to pick up. So I setup my DSLR and did a timelapse overnight expecting that it would pick up by the time I woke up.
Here is the timelapse video (~26 hours after pitch to 38 hours after pitch):
https://streamable.com/qfelc
The video makes it look a bright in the room (long exposure) but it is actually fairly dark.
After I stopped the video I gave the fermenter a shake/swirl and now there are lots more yeasty looking bits floating on the top which hopefully is a good sign. I am also going to let the temperature rise a bit (was between like 19.5 and 20.5 for most of that video).
Few questions...
1) Should I start to consider repitching or is the fact that it is slowly bubbling good enough?
2) Anything else I should be doing?
3) How will a slow start like this impact the brew? Will I not hit the target gravity? Will it add a particular off flavor?
Then I added water to my fermenter (did a partial boil), I don't remember being super careful about splashes but I definitely didn't pour in hard and definitely didn't stir very hard.
I pretty much hit my target temp perfectly was looking for 21c and got 21.5c. Was busy patting myself on the back about that and just put my dry yeast (Safale S04) in and immediately I thought it was kind of odd because it just sank to the bottom where past brews it floated on the top.
There was like 0 action for the first 24 hours and I wasn't too worried about that because I have read that sometimes it takes a bit to pick up. So I setup my DSLR and did a timelapse overnight expecting that it would pick up by the time I woke up.
Here is the timelapse video (~26 hours after pitch to 38 hours after pitch):
https://streamable.com/qfelc
The video makes it look a bright in the room (long exposure) but it is actually fairly dark.
After I stopped the video I gave the fermenter a shake/swirl and now there are lots more yeasty looking bits floating on the top which hopefully is a good sign. I am also going to let the temperature rise a bit (was between like 19.5 and 20.5 for most of that video).
Few questions...
1) Should I start to consider repitching or is the fact that it is slowly bubbling good enough?
2) Anything else I should be doing?
3) How will a slow start like this impact the brew? Will I not hit the target gravity? Will it add a particular off flavor?