No activity in airlock, but there is Krausen

Gee Tee · Oct 30, 2023

IslandLizard said:
What yeast did you repitch?

There should have been plenty of yeast in your Omega CL-50 pack for a 2.5 gallon batch. Unless it was old or (nearly) dead (from shipping in hot weather).

When you take your next gravity reading, can you post a picture of that?
Show the hydrometer in the testing jar, with the SG scale facing us.
Is that a "sugar" hydrometer?

Great idea, Island Lizard. It's more than likely I'm reading the gravity wrong as the Omega CL-50 was fine. I'm newish to this so I'm still learning, it's possible that the second addition of CL-50 over the weekend did the job, and if it's human error I shall jump for joy and bottle it up.

camonick · Oct 30, 2023

Gee Tee said:
Great idea, Island Lizard. It's more than likely I'm reading the gravity wrong as the Omega CL-50 was fine. I'm newish to this so I'm still leanring, and if it's human error I shall jump for joy and bottle it up.

That beer is dead done!!!
That reads 1.008

Now, the next question is, what were you looking at when you thought it was reading 1.042 for the OG?

IslandLizard · Oct 30, 2023

camonick said:
That reads 1.008

Exactly!

Gee Tee said:
It's more than likely I'm reading the gravity wrong

That was my inkling...

The large divisions are at 10 points: 1.000, 1.010, 1.020, etc.
The small (sub)divisions are at 2 points each: 1.002, 1.004, 1.006, 1.008

Phew...!