[Homebrewers] What to do?

[Frenn, Michael]

PS  If no action in your beer after two days, pitch the dry yeast.

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[mailto:homebrewers-bounces at hazeclub.org] On Behalf Of james cooper
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 7:03 PM
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Subject: [Homebrewers] What to do?


What to do?
 
I am ready to make a 5 gallon batch of beer tomorrow, so:
 
1.  September 3-Made a beer starter. Boiled 3 cups of h2o with 1 cup of
liquid malt, and when cooled pitched into a 1 gallon container, and put
on a fermentation lock. (Made sure to pour mixture from 6' to aerate
well with a liquid California Yeast)
 
2.  September5-no bubbling action in fermentation lock.......Hmmmmm!
maybe I did not aerate enough. Poured into a sanitized pan at 7 a.m.
back and forth to gallon container, then reaffixed fermentation lock.
by 3 p.m. the lock was "burping" 1 bubble every 27 seconds
 
3.  Tomorrow I want to brew beer, but is this weak fermentaion starter
enough to pitch in my wort?  It is still "burping" 1 bubble every 27
seconds.
 
What to do?  I have a beer in a secondary that I will bottle/keg
tomorrow also.  Should I:
 
a.  Use the slurry for a starter?
b.  Use the (what I consider a weak starter) to pitch into tomorrows
brew?
c.  Use a dry yeast which always works?
d.  Use a., b., and c., to make sure it works?
 
What should I do in this dilema, 
 
Jim Cooper
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