Yeast Stuck to Side of Carboy

[milesbishop]

Hey everyone,

Before I start I wanna say, yes this is my first time using my glass carboy as a primary fermenter. I rehydrated my yeast and pitched about 3 hours ago. Some of the yeast is stuck to the sides and neck of the carboy. Thoughts??? I aerated before I pitched and shortly after as well. Is there enough yeast in the brew to activate fermentation? Is the yeast on the sides and neck okay there?

 

[Hammy71]

Sometimes you'll see material of some kind sticking to the carboy's sides. No biggie. If its in the neck above your wort, give the carboy a shake and rinse/knock the yeast into the beer. Either way, it sounds like you got most of the yeast in the carboy, so no worries.

 

[flars]

No worries about oxidation before fermentation. Give the fermentor a slosh to bring the yeast into the wort.
I use a small funnel when I pour the yeast.

 

[slowbrew16]

I was wondering the same thing. On my last brew, an Irish Red Ale, I used my glass carboy because my plastic bucket was full with an Irish Dry Stout. I also wanted to see fermentation going on thru the glass. (kind of cool) I strained the wort and used a racking cane to aerate When I dumped my yeast in, it seemed to clump a lot. Although I had vigorous fermentation using a blow off tube, and then switched to an airlock after 3 days. Let it sit for 3 weeks. When I poured it into my bottling bucket on brew day I notice some yeast looked like it never "expanded" like it looks right out of the packet. My FG was also a little higher than it should of been. I bottled anyway and waiting to try one in the next couple weeks. I don't think I will use my secondary for a primary again.

 

[Yooper]

I was wondering the same thing. On my last brew, an Irish Red Ale, I used my glass carboy because my plastic bucket was full with an Irish Dry Stout. I also wanted to see fermentation going on thru the glass. (kind of cool) I strained the wort and used a racking cane to aerate When I dumped my yeast in, it seemed to clump a lot. Although I had vigorous fermentation using a blow off tube, and then switched to an airlock after 3 days. Let it sit for 3 weeks. When I poured it into my bottling bucket on brew day I notice some yeast looked like it never "expanded" like it looks right out of the packet. My FG was also a little higher than it should of been. I bottled anyway and waiting to try one in the next couple weeks. I don't think I will use my secondary for a primary again.

Hopefully, you mean that you siphoned the beer into your bottling bucket and not 'poured' so I wanted to point that out to any newer brewers who may have seen that and been confused.

Yeast are microscopic, so if you see a few clumps that is a big group of yeast together. They are great creatures, and know where the sugars to eat are so you don't have to worry about stirring it up or agitating the yeast in the wort.

 

[slowbrew16]

I'm sorry I did mean siphoned. I did try a couple of bottles last weekend and it was fine. My wife loved it which is saying something!! Just another newbie worrying about nothing.