Elweydoloco
Well-Known Member
Hey guys,
The dilemna is, I have zero activity showing yeast growth. No gravity change, no bubbling in air lock, no bucket lid bulging. It's completely odd as if you read below, I did everything correctly, and I didn't temp shock the yeast either.
I brewed a porter the other night. Nothing special a typical run of the mill recipe. Mashed in hit my temps hit my OG .001 high. Cooled with the wort chiller in 10 minutes to 70ish.
I used Notty dry yeast and made a starter with warm water not hot I didn't shock it added a tablespoon of sugar. It balooned up like crazy as I gave it an hour it was in a container with a saran wrap cover. The container was sanitized.
Anyway I took all the proper steps to ensure no infections and to have a decent starter even though this was a lower gravity porter of 1.046, by all means I should have been OK sprinkling the yeast w/o a starter after hyrdating it.
I've now shook the crap out of it hoping to get some activity heated it up a little as well I had it at 62 in the ferm fridge it's now at 70.
Almost forgot, it's been 6 days since brew day.
I've got some S-04 I might make the starter and pitch it too.
The dilemna is, I have zero activity showing yeast growth. No gravity change, no bubbling in air lock, no bucket lid bulging. It's completely odd as if you read below, I did everything correctly, and I didn't temp shock the yeast either.
I brewed a porter the other night. Nothing special a typical run of the mill recipe. Mashed in hit my temps hit my OG .001 high. Cooled with the wort chiller in 10 minutes to 70ish.
I used Notty dry yeast and made a starter with warm water not hot I didn't shock it added a tablespoon of sugar. It balooned up like crazy as I gave it an hour it was in a container with a saran wrap cover. The container was sanitized.
Anyway I took all the proper steps to ensure no infections and to have a decent starter even though this was a lower gravity porter of 1.046, by all means I should have been OK sprinkling the yeast w/o a starter after hyrdating it.
I've now shook the crap out of it hoping to get some activity heated it up a little as well I had it at 62 in the ferm fridge it's now at 70.
Almost forgot, it's been 6 days since brew day.
I've got some S-04 I might make the starter and pitch it too.