HomeBrewMasterRace
Enthusiastic Homebrewer
Hi All,
Hoping this is more of a simple question; but I generally brew with ale yeast not lager yeast. This year for my Oktoberfest instead of using a kolsch yeast I used a German lager yeast.
I chose WLP830, made a 1.5L Starter and let it go. It fermented quite well in the starter and i put it in the fridge the day of the brew so i could pitch once the temp hit lager pitching temps.
So i cooled down to 58°, poured out the top of my starter and mixed the yeast slurry and pitched all that into the beer.
It's been 24 hrs, and has been sitting at 49/50° and i haven't seen a change in my SG (1.057) - i use a tilt hydrometer to measure.
I popped the lid off and there appears to be what looks like yeast rafts, but as I'm more used to more aggressively fermenting ale yeast, this is out of my knowledge so wanted to make sure it was working and on track correctly.
Thanks in advance!
Hoping this is more of a simple question; but I generally brew with ale yeast not lager yeast. This year for my Oktoberfest instead of using a kolsch yeast I used a German lager yeast.
I chose WLP830, made a 1.5L Starter and let it go. It fermented quite well in the starter and i put it in the fridge the day of the brew so i could pitch once the temp hit lager pitching temps.
So i cooled down to 58°, poured out the top of my starter and mixed the yeast slurry and pitched all that into the beer.
It's been 24 hrs, and has been sitting at 49/50° and i haven't seen a change in my SG (1.057) - i use a tilt hydrometer to measure.
I popped the lid off and there appears to be what looks like yeast rafts, but as I'm more used to more aggressively fermenting ale yeast, this is out of my knowledge so wanted to make sure it was working and on track correctly.
Thanks in advance!