My cwtch hasnt started fermentation
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looks like bubbles on the surface so its starting to ferment put it some were warm next to a rad it should soon be going.
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Most dry yeast pitched without rehydration will take 24hrs or so to get going. The bubbles are a good indicator that it's starting. Don't worry.
How low is your house temp getting? If it's below 18C for a good few hours you could do with assistance with maintaining a minimum temp, a garden trug and a fish tank heater is a simple cheap solution
http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=66407
Try wrapping a couple of thick towels round it too..or your wife's best goose down jacket if you have a wife who has one. !
aninswed59
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I have a similar problem with a Woodfordes Sundew kit. It's in a FastFerment vessel with a heat belt and covered with an old fleece jacket. It's in the garage and has been for a week but no sign of life. The flask at the bottom appears to have about a quarter of an inch of yeasty material in it. I assumed that the heat belt and fleece would be enough to keep the wort warm. It looks as though I'll have to move it inside the house. Do I need to do anything more?
Did it eventually get going?
I've made up a Cwtch kit yesterday and got exactly the same. I'm not going to panic as one of my recent brews took 3 days to get going, but 9 out of 10 of my brews are going the next day and this one isn't. I've looked inside the fermenter and the re-hydrated yeast is just sat on top as a gloopy clump.
I've made up a Cwtch kit yesterday and got exactly the same. I'm not going to panic as one of my recent brews took 3 days to get going, but 9 out of 10 of my brews are going the next day and this one isn't. I've looked inside the fermenter and the re-hydrated yeast is just sat on top as a gloopy clump.
Update - it's going. Seems like a slow-starting yeast with this kit.
...or a rubbish not enough in the packet type of yeast! Glad it's going...keep an eye on it and sharpen a pencil to give it a poke incase it gets lazy about 1020....
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