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Quick update: Gravity reading was good. Krausen has fallen, just dry hopped and will be botteling next week. All is good. I can not wait for this one! Thanks again for all the advice. Cheers!

Ok, so it has now been 8 days since I brewed, and although I did see krausen, I have still not seen any activity in the airlock. I am going to head to the LBS tomorrow and pick up another pack of yeast and pitch it after work tomorrow. Hopefully I can get this baby back on track tomorrow.

Thank you everyone for your replies. Still no activity, but I did take a peek and the Krausen is there. I suspect that the difference is that the last batch I was using my father in laws old fermenting bucket which was not marked for 5 gallons and I did not have enough head space, thus the...

I did not need to make a starter, it was a wyeast smack pack. I think I will take a peek tomorrow to look for krausen.

I brewed an extract kit from Northern Brewer (Black IPA) on Saturday afternoon. This is my second batch and the first took about 48 hour before I saw any airlock activity, then it went bat **** crazy and I needed a blow off tube. Both batches have used the Wyeast 1272. It has now been almost...