Help Bourbon Barrel Porter Extract Issue

[barkscruff]

I brewed the NB BBP extract kit last night using a yeast starter for the 1st time. I made the 650 ml starter on Wednesday night, and by Thursday morning there was a nice little cake and some activity...I gave it a nice swirl every time I walked by, and decided that I would brew my batch and pitch the yeast that evening. I ended up brewing the batch and pitching the entire yeast starter @ 78 degrees around 9pm, so that would have been roughly 36 hours after making it.

OG was 1.065 before I pitched, and I immediately moved the fermenting bucket to my spot. I expected to wake up this morning to the beer foaming thru my airlock...But to my shock there was no activity at all. Am I worried about nothing yet? Is 12 hours too soon to expect activity? I was under the impression that the starter should start bubbling much sooner. I will be super bummed if there is an issue w/ this one because I have been building up the confidence to make this baby for a long time.

 

[Lennie]

You had a very small starter, really just rousing the yeast. You pitched in a fairly high gravity wort, it may take 24-48hrs. I'm guessing you'll see something by 24 since the yeast was already active when pitched.

 

[barkscruff]

Thanks...I do have some comparable dry yeast on hand. Should I try to make a 2nd starter and pitch that also, or wait and see?

 

[Lennie]

I'd wait, it'll start up soon enough. I looked on NB and the kit is supposed to be 1.065 OG, thats not super high. The Scottish ale yeast isn't super-fast anyway. That will be one tasty kit, the recipe wins awards at beer comps all the time.

 

[barkscruff]

Thanks Lennie - Appreciate the replies.

 

[gavball6]

I am set to bottle mine this weekend... Can't wait to try one in a few weeks! If I recall, I pitched about a 1.5L starter and it still was a little bit of a slow start (24 hours or so) and it definitely was not a very vigorous fermentation. I had a blowoff tube which only got coated to about 6 inches out of my bucket.

Give it another day... All will be fine!