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vimicoma

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I'm on my second batch, this time brewing a peach ale or at least trying. 3 days ago I started fermenting this batch using wyeast, what I fail to do is pop the pack 3hours before adding it into my batch to start fermentation, I only let the smack-pack wyeast rest for one and a half hours before adding it. It looks like the fermentation stopped after the third day, I don't see any activity going on. Is it too early to tell or is there a way to save my batch by adding more yeast? I'm not very experienced yet. I would really appreciate any help or advice.
Thank you in advance.
PS- I attached a picture of the batch to show how it looks like at this time.

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I don't see any activity going on.

What do you mean? I see activity. It looks like a healthy beer that's fermenting along nicely, but you won't see airlock activity if you keep popping the lid off to look at it.

Don't worry about breaking the Wyeast packet too much. That mainly wakes the yeast up. They're definitely awake by now.

Your beer will be fine. RDWHAHB.
 
KISS Brew said:
What do you mean? I see activity. It looks like a healthy beer that's fermenting along nicely, but you won't see airlock activity if you keep popping the lid off to look at it.

Don't worry about breaking the Wyeast packet too much. That mainly wakes the yeast up. They're definitely awake by now.

Your beer will be fine. RDWHAHB.

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It is fermenting so stop worrying, leave it alone and let the yeast make you some tasty beer! Give it another week to 10 days and then check for FG.
 
Thank you very much everyone, I can rest and stop worrying now, I'll be looking forward for a good delicious beer in a few weeks now.

Btw, after FG I'm bottling the beer and I was told that I need to add carbonation pills into the bottles and also add sugar for more fermentation and alcohol, I can't help but to be very skeptical about this, I can only think of bottle bombs by doing this.
What do you guys say about this?
 
vimicoma said:
Thank you very much everyone, I can rest and stop worrying now, I'll be looking forward for a good delicious beer in a few weeks now.

Btw, after FG I'm bottling the beer and I was told that I need to add carbonation pills into the bottles and also add sugar for more fermentation and alcohol, I can't help but to be very skeptical about this, I can only think of bottle bombs by doing this.
What do you guys say about this?

Don't do both, you either use the tabs OR the priming sugar, definitely not both, I prefer priming sugar, some people complain about mixed results with the tabs.

Read Revvy's bottling stickie, everything you need I know about bottling and then some, it's in the bottling forum, cheers!
 
duboman said:
Don't do both, you either use the tabs OR the priming sugar, definitely not both, I prefer priming sugar, some people complain about mixed results with the tabs.

Read Revvy's bottling stickie, everything you need I know about bottling and then some, it's in the bottling forum, cheers!

Thank you very much, I'm leaning for priming sugar now. I'll check Revvy's bottling stickie right away.
Thank you!
 

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