Hello All, long time no post.
Boiled myself up a lovely brew last night, house smelt like wheat malt and 2 types of hops. Im trying to make a Hoegaarden clone so I decided I would order some Belgium Wheat yeast. I wasn't paying attention when I ordered it and when it arrived realised it was a WYEAST liquid yeast.
There were many more instructions on the packet but I tried to follow them the best I could, broke the internal netrient packet and left it for 4 hours in the ambient air (around 18c-20c). Once I had finished with the wort I had it sitting at around 21c-22c as requested on the packet and poured the yeast into the wort.
Its now the next day and my airlock hasn't moved at all, even if bubbling is slow to start I would at least see the gasses starting to move through the airlock...but nothing. I would have thought this yeast would have started like a bat outta hell as its meant to be "activated". Since this is my first time using liquid yeast have I got this all wrong, is it normally slow to get going? Would hate to see all that effort and ingrediant tipped down the drain...
I know many people rubbish airlocks on this forum, but mine has a seal and I have never had an issue with it.
Thanks in advance for any advice.
Boiled myself up a lovely brew last night, house smelt like wheat malt and 2 types of hops. Im trying to make a Hoegaarden clone so I decided I would order some Belgium Wheat yeast. I wasn't paying attention when I ordered it and when it arrived realised it was a WYEAST liquid yeast.
There were many more instructions on the packet but I tried to follow them the best I could, broke the internal netrient packet and left it for 4 hours in the ambient air (around 18c-20c). Once I had finished with the wort I had it sitting at around 21c-22c as requested on the packet and poured the yeast into the wort.
Its now the next day and my airlock hasn't moved at all, even if bubbling is slow to start I would at least see the gasses starting to move through the airlock...but nothing. I would have thought this yeast would have started like a bat outta hell as its meant to be "activated". Since this is my first time using liquid yeast have I got this all wrong, is it normally slow to get going? Would hate to see all that effort and ingrediant tipped down the drain...
I know many people rubbish airlocks on this forum, but mine has a seal and I have never had an issue with it.
Thanks in advance for any advice.