No Activity in Starter - Used it Anyway!

[roflomingo]

I brewed a brown ale with WL002. Violent fermentation, beer came out great. Decided to wash this yeast, so after primary fermentation, I racked the brown ale to secondary and washed the yeast. Made a starter late in the afternoon, and let it go over night. The next day, there was no activity in the starter but I decided to give it a go anyways. Brewed an IPA and pitched the yeast starter.

Its been a day and there is no activity in primary. Should I buy some dry -05 and throw that in?

 

[smakudwn]

Check the gravity and see if it has changed, maybe just a slow start?

 

[roflomingo]

Its definitely a slow start, there is ZERO activity, so I am assuming gravity would be the same.

Maybe I didnt wash the yeast properly or made too big a starter (1L). Will the yeast eventually get going, I dont mind waiting, but I dont want to run a risk if I should just re pitched now.

Also, is there a problem mixing yeast? Was going to give to to the weekend to see if anything starts moving, if not, throw in some yeast.

I do have another jar from the yeast washing that I could make a starter tonight and pitch that later in the week if the starter becomes active?

 

[duboman]

Zero activity meaning no air bubbles or your gravity reading is still at the OG?

If the former take a reading, if the latter, it can take up to 72 hours for active fermentation to begins depending on many variables

 

[roflomingo]

Man, should have waited it out. There was no action this morning but when I came home from work, the yeasties were doing their thing. It only made me nervous that there was NO activity in the starter, so with the lag in primary I figured it was a dud. Yeast are amazing organisms. All is well, hopefully wl002 will do ok for an IPA (only thing I had)