My dad and I just brewed the Australian Sparkling Kit. We are having some fermentation issues. Usually with our beers we get activity within the night we brewed. It has now been almost 24 hours and we are a little concerned.
We ordered the kit a few days before July 4th and we knew that we wouldn’t get it til the next Monday which was true. So we naturally worried about our yeast sitting in a shipping center for so long without the icepack.
When I smacked the pack and shook it up, the yeast did not swell as much as I am accustomed to and we used a starter and a stir plate. By the time the starter was finished, it had turned a darker brown then what I would consider the norm.
We brewed the beer just fine and I have everything temperature controlled in a brew freezer. I did use fermcap-s which I don’t usually use.
I guess my concerns are as follows:
Does the brown color mean that the yeast has died?
Do I need to order new yeast and will the unfermenting beer be fine for a week without it?
Could the fermcap be affecting anything?
Maybe nothing is wrong, I know it’s still early but we have never brewed with this yeast before so it seems peculiar
Thanks for the help
