dstegelman
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I've read a few of these threads and while I'm pretty sure I know what I should be doing, I wanted some opinioins/thoughts from here.
I'm doing my first lager where I actually can control the temperature, I've done a few in the past but they've always fermented above 65 in my house. I brewed Sunday (7/24) and pitched two (probably damaged) packets of liquid yeast. I know I underpitched this a bit, and i KNOW I should have made a starter. Question is, its been more than 3 full days and I checked gravity and I am still at OG. I pitched at probably 70 and then cooled to 50 after that. I've shaken the bucket a bit with no results. Fed up, I moved the fermenter into the house to see if warming it up would bring it back to life.
If this doesn't work after a day or so, what more can I do? I have a packet of ale yeast, but I don't really want to pitch that into my lager. The closest LHBS is over 2.5 hours away.
Any serious thoughts are appreciated.
I'm doing my first lager where I actually can control the temperature, I've done a few in the past but they've always fermented above 65 in my house. I brewed Sunday (7/24) and pitched two (probably damaged) packets of liquid yeast. I know I underpitched this a bit, and i KNOW I should have made a starter. Question is, its been more than 3 full days and I checked gravity and I am still at OG. I pitched at probably 70 and then cooled to 50 after that. I've shaken the bucket a bit with no results. Fed up, I moved the fermenter into the house to see if warming it up would bring it back to life.
If this doesn't work after a day or so, what more can I do? I have a packet of ale yeast, but I don't really want to pitch that into my lager. The closest LHBS is over 2.5 hours away.
Any serious thoughts are appreciated.