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This is my second home brew, a brown ale., The first batch was a stout and that started fermenting pretty quick, about 8 hours. I pitched a White Labs liquid ale yeast that just arrived at the local home brew store so I think it was ok. The temp of the room it is in is around 66 degrees. The one thing I think could have happened was the temp may have been to warm like 80 degrees when I pitched the yeast.


Should I have more patience? Should I pitch more yeast? If so, when?

Any help will be great.

What yeast exactly? Not knowing that I would say wait till morning and if you got nothing at all pitch more yeast.

Travis

Sorry, it is White Labs British Ale yeast.

Would have helped to log in... getting late and just finished work.

That should be a good temp for that yeast. The other things would be how well you aerated and how much yeast you pitched. If you just pitched one tube of yeast you may have to wait a while before it gets started. Look into doing a starter next time.

Travis

When you say no bbbles do you mean in the airlock or on the surface of the beer


Basically Airlocks suc ass and cannot be trusted, they are the debble i tell you..................

Look for activity on the surface of the beer you should get a little foam or even a big thick( upto4" or more) on the surface...this is called krausun(sp)

if youhave this you have fermentation, BUT some brews i have made have had little or none depending on the yeast.......

DONT TRUST THE AIRLOCK

the other way to check is to take a sample and take a reading to see if there is any fermentation happening

DONT TRUST THE AIRLOCK..


LEt us know how you go








DONT TRUST THE AIR LOCK

Ozbrewer wrote:DONT TRUST THE AIRLOCK

I second that info. I have one bucket that has a slightly leaky lid. If the carboy is full and I use that bucket instead, my airlock (the "S" type) liquid level is uneven, so I know there's positive pressure inside - but it won't bubble because any additional pressure just goes out the lid leak.

By the way, I'm gambling every time I use that bucket, so I wouldn't recommend keeping a bucket like that around, but knock on wood it has worked so far for me. One of these days I'll throw it out when I have a replacement.

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Thanks all of you for responding and for your help.

Even though I shouldn't trust the air lock I did notice activity from it this morning. Also, I did only pitch one tube of the liquid yeast so maybe that was the problem. I didn't know I could or should pitch more than one tube at a time.

I am on a budget so a carboy is in the future for me so I hope the buckets work ok for now.

So, if I think of it I will let you all know how it comes out. I love stouts and porters, any suggestions, extract kit or recipe, for some good ones I can be drinking in a short time?