Harvested Yeast Fermenation

[BuschLatte]

First time harvesting and reusing yeast. WLP001. I unfortunately did not use a starter and have had the beer sitting for 24 hrs @ 70F. No sign of fermentation yet... no krausen nor bubbles in the airlock.

I plan on letting it sit another 24hrs and see what happens. Yeast was harvested 2 weeks ago. Any suggestions?

 

[Calaeb]

Always a good idea to use a starter with harvested yeast, im sure you know that now. My best idea would be to just let it sit for another day and if nothing pitch new yeast.

 

[BuschLatte]

Any merit to warming the beer up a bit?

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

Ive never made a starter and always use reused yeast. I'd wait till morning and check it again. 70 is a tad high also.Unless you have temp control your actual beer id going to be higher.I'd shoot for 67 actual liquid temp(not air temp) How much reused yeast did you use? I use around 3/4 of a mason jar for a 5 gallon batch.

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

Any merit to warming the beer up a bit?

I wouldn't warm it up.70 is plenty high as it is. The whole object is to keep the temps as steady as possible.Some warm up the beer at the END of fermentation to help clean up any off flavors produced from the fermentation...I don't. Even temps has always worked for me.

 

[BuschLatte]

It is in a swamp cooler @70F. In the past I have added ice packs once fermentation has started to keep it @ 70F and when in the secondary i shoot for ~62F. I used about a quart to quart and a half of yeast.

 

[JONNYROTTEN]

That should be plenty of yeast assuming it was stored in a fridge and is under 2 months old or so. Most skip the secondary depending on the beer.It opens the door for infection and oxidation.Just leave it in the primary and go straight to bottle or keg

 

[BuschLatte]

I assumed the quart or so would be plenty as well.. Which is the reason I hastly didnt do a starter. Any ideas as to why the yeast is taking longer to start?