I was in a hurry, my kid was screaming, and my wife was nagging. In my haste I figured I'd pitch my yeast directly onto the wort and skip rehydrating. Now I'm having second thoughts.
I made a batch of Graff which is 4 gallons apple juice and 1 gallon malty wort. I used US-05 and pitched at 67 degrees at 7:30pm last night. The house is cool and the wort has cooled to 63 degrees at 7:30am. No activity yet but I wasn't expecting any. The airlock is moving in the right direction even though the wort has cooled after 12 hours....so that is a good sign. OG was 1.060.
I just read Fermentis' spec sheet on US-05. The prefered method is to rehydrate but they say pitching directly onto the wort is fine as long as the temp is over 68 degrees.
Oooooops.
Have I stressed my yeasties too much or damaged/killed them? Or will it just chug along slowly until it warms itself up a bit and wake the drowsy yeast up all on its own?
I've been trying to get my fermentation temps into the low-mid 60's and overlooked the fact that its too cool for dry yeast to be pitched directly. Anyone have experience with a situation like this?
I made a batch of Graff which is 4 gallons apple juice and 1 gallon malty wort. I used US-05 and pitched at 67 degrees at 7:30pm last night. The house is cool and the wort has cooled to 63 degrees at 7:30am. No activity yet but I wasn't expecting any. The airlock is moving in the right direction even though the wort has cooled after 12 hours....so that is a good sign. OG was 1.060.
I just read Fermentis' spec sheet on US-05. The prefered method is to rehydrate but they say pitching directly onto the wort is fine as long as the temp is over 68 degrees.
Oooooops.
Have I stressed my yeasties too much or damaged/killed them? Or will it just chug along slowly until it warms itself up a bit and wake the drowsy yeast up all on its own?
I've been trying to get my fermentation temps into the low-mid 60's and overlooked the fact that its too cool for dry yeast to be pitched directly. Anyone have experience with a situation like this?