Added yeast before I shook Car boy will it activate?

[Jetski33]

I stupidly added yeast and than rocked car boy to introduce air 1 day later no fermentation did I ruin this or should I add one more package yeast or give it time. Thanks for any input

[frenchie]

Need a little more info. What yeast? Wort gravity? Aerating after adding yeast shouldn't cause you any problems unless you've horribly under pitched a liquid yeast. Even then you're probably ok. Just give us some more info.

Cheers.

Ron

[loopie_beer]

What temps?

[brew_cat]

No I always add the yeast and shake perfectly acceptable. May have not shaken it enough. I would encourage you to find a better way to aerate than shaking a glass carboy. Try pouring it back and forth in a pot or bucket then pour into your carboy. Most people using carboys use a stone. It will probably be slower because of lack of O2 but it should go eventually

[squeegeethree]

Can you see inside the fermentor? If you are judging activity based on the airlock bubbling then you should know this forum get a lot of loose leak lid posts.