Montanaandy
Well-Known Member
Looking for insight from anyone who has used Wyeast PacMan. I used PacMan to brew the Dead Guy Clone this weekend. I ordered this yeast since I cannot get it locally and it arrived partially frozen (wicked cold last week and this week in MT). I warmed it up in the fridge and pitched it to a starter the next day which remained on the stirplate for around 24 hours. Appeared to be fine on the stirplate and resembled all of the other yeasts that I have prepared on the stirplate. Underestimated my calculations and had to add water to the wort after IC chilling before I pitched. The OG was on target. From Sun - Tue. the yeast was churning the airlock pretty good with a nice krausen forming and the temp inside the BB around 72' or so. This morning the krausen has pretty much disappeared and the internal temp is down to 66 and the activity seems to have ceased after just 3 days. In reading that this is normally a fairly aggressive yeast, should I just allow the beer to continue on its way or given the problem that I had with the yeast (frozen) would it be a good idea to pitch dry (say 005)? Thanks, Montanaandy