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Date: 29 Oct 2006 22:39:14
From: TheGist
Subject: fermentation stopped after ~12hours
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I brewed a pumpkin ale saturday afternoon. Before I went to bed I
noticed that the airlock was showing a good amount of CO2 escape.
This morning, some time after breakfast I looked again and noticed zero
activity in the air lock.
Temperature has been around 64-66 degrees F or so. Munton's dry yeast is
what was used. Should I try pitching more yeast? What would cause the
fermentation to stop so soon after showing some good activity?
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Date: 29 Oct 2006 23:06:41
From: Wayne
Subject: Re: fermentation stopped after ~12hours
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TheGist wrote:
> I brewed a pumpkin ale saturday afternoon. Before I went to bed I
> noticed that the airlock was showing a good amount of CO2 escape.
> This morning, some time after breakfast I looked again and noticed zero
> activity in the air lock.
> Temperature has been around 64-66 degrees F or so. Munton's dry yeast is
> what was used. Should I try pitching more yeast? What would cause the
> fermentation to stop so soon after showing some good activity?
It's probably the temperature. If you can get the temperature up
another 5-6 degrees, fermentation should take off again. It probably
started up while the wort was still relatively warm but stalled out when
the temperature fell.
Wayne
Bugeater Brewing Company
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Date: 30 Oct 2006 16:56:00
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: fermentation stopped after ~12hours
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On Sun, 29 2006 22:39:14 -0500, <fake@notreal.info > wrote:
> I brewed a pumpkin ale saturday afternoon. Before I went to bed I
> noticed that the airlock was showing a good amount of CO2 escape.
> This morning, some time after breakfast I looked again and noticed zero
> activity in the air lock.
> Temperature has been around 64-66 degrees F or so. Munton's dry yeast is
> what was used. Should I try pitching more yeast? What would cause the
> fermentation to stop so soon after showing some good activity?
Take a gravity reading and see what it's doing.
John.
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Date: 29 Oct 2006 21:55:47
From:
Subject: Re: fermentation stopped after ~12hours
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TheGist wrote:
> I brewed a pumpkin ale saturday afternoon. Before I went to bed I
> noticed that the airlock was showing a good amount of CO2 escape.
> This morning, some time after breakfast I looked again and noticed zero
> activity in the air lock.
> Temperature has been around 64-66 degrees F or so. Munton's dry yeast is
> what was used. Should I try pitching more yeast? What would cause the
> fermentation to stop so soon after showing some good activity?
What kind of yeast were you using? That temperature might be perfectly
fine. You can always take a gravity reading to see where you are.
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