muntons gold continental pilsner advice please

[Leeroydavid]

Hi, I'm wanting to eventually do BIAB Lager, I went to my local homebrew shop to get what i needed, but they didn't stock anything to do with all grain brewing, so I decided to give muntons gold continental pilsner a go, I followed the instructions, and I had leave it at a temperature of between 18-21 degrees, but when checking the following day, it was between 23 - 24 degrees, and I had it in the coolest place in the house, I ordered a fridge temperature control unit, and i now have it in there keeping it from between 18 - 21, but not much seems to be happening with it, even at the higher temperature, for 3 days, it froffed up, but nothing happened in the air lock, now its not doing much, see photo below, any advice on what i should do please?

 

[D.B.Moody]

any advice on what i should do please?

Put the lid back on the fermenter and leave it alone. Wait until it's been in there two weeks, three if you.re a worrier, and bottle it (Or, if you really want to stir up the crowd, transfer it to a secondary for the last week, ))

 

[Leeroydavid]

Thanks, I only opened it take take the photo

 

[madscientist451]

You started warm, then chilled the beer down. Its only natural that the yeast slowed down, but they are still in there working away.
Once the beer is 50% done, you can ramp up the temperature.
Pull a sample and see what your gravity is.
Your first lager might not be what you wanted, but its still beer and you've learned a few things for next time.
I've used the '"quick lager" method and it works pretty good:
https://brulosophy.com/methods/lager-method/
There's also a warm fermented lager thread here on HBT:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/threads/warm-fermented-lager-thread.592169/

 

[Leeroydavid]

Thanks, I just thought it had stopped fermenting and I was going to have to throw away

 

[Steveruch]

What yeast came with the kit?

 

[odie]

Muntons lager yeast? that's new to me. Never seen it sold anywhere.

 

[Leeroydavid]

What yeast came with the kit?

it just said lager yeast on the packet

 

[Kickass]

I was going to have to throw away

always see it through. Many have been very surprised with tasty beers that were “ruined” at some point in the process.

 

[Leeroydavid]

Muntons lager yeast? that's new to me. Never seen it sold anywhere.

it came in the kit

 

[Steveruch]

it came in the kitView attachment 739174

Dang, that could be anything. 18-21 doesn't sound like a lager yeast to me. Was that what the instructions said?