OK. I see I have stirred up the beer gods.
Revvy, I have been brewing since 1986 and have never had a wort sit on yeast more than 30 hours without overt signs of fermentation with or without a starter (I don't lager or do particularly cool ferments which may explain it partially) so I don't care if the beginners forum has six weeks posted as a fermentation time table, my experience has been different so I asked a question. This is a special brew in honor of my son and I don't want it messed up and since it will sit until next December before I will know if something wild got loose in there, I'm a little edgy and was hoping for early, obvious activity.
Guess what, it doesn't matter one riff that
you've never experienced it, quite clearly by the SHEER NUMBER of folks who have posted in there, OTHERS HAVE.
People don't make that crap up. We're not saying it to jerk your chains. I learned A LONG TIME AGO, never to compare any fermentation, never to hold any expectations from one brew to another.
I'm TRYING TO HELP YOU BY SHOWING YOU SOMETHING. ME,
I would find COMFORT in that info.....
That's why we HAVE THAT STICKY, so folks don't over-react.
Haven't you heard the saying, "There's a first time for everything?" Just MAYE it's your first time.... *shrug*
If you're REALLY concerned, then why the heck haven't you used the ONE TOOL that will tell you what's happening? If you've been brewing since 1986, you would think that perhaps you would have heard of taking a gravity reading? But we suggest that folks take it AFTER the lag time has passed.
If in NORMAL situations yeast can and has taked up to 72 hours, and you underpitched, then it should be expected that it might take 72 hours, dontja think?