Hi all, I made a silly mistake, I made a sugar wash recipe yesterday that I got from here, the one with tomatoe paste, lemon juice and cane sugar. I sanitised everything real good and mixed everything up, put the lid on and air lock and just realised 24 hours later that I forgot to put the yeast in.
Has anyone else done this? And will it be ok still? TIA
Forgot to add yeast until the next day!!
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Re: Forgot to add yeast until the next day!!
It'll be fine. You may have to warm it back up to the yeasts fermenting temp.
Re: Forgot to add yeast until the next day!!
Thanks mate I’ll turn the heat pad on. It started bubbling slowly about ten minutes after I added the yeast
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Re: Forgot to add yeast until the next day!!
Ha! Never.
I’ve pitched bad yeast that wasn’t viable ( who knew?), but forgetting to pitch it all together...priceless!
Still...brewing is reasonably tolerant to human error. I bet you won’t forget to pitch yeast in the future.
Just don’t “drink & drive” your still.
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Re: Forgot to add yeast until the next day!!
I pitched some bad yeast. Am I good to add some active yeast to the same wash? Yeasty!still_stirrin wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2019 4:28 amHa! Never.
I’ve pitched bad yeast that wasn’t viable ( who knew?), but forgetting to pitch it all together...priceless!
Still...brewing is reasonably tolerant to human error. I bet you won’t forget to pitch yeast in the future.
Just don’t “drink & drive” your still.
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Re: Forgot to add yeast until the next day!!
I wouldn't sweat it. My wife regularly complains that I forget to do stuff I promised to do, like fix the toilet, take out the trash, trim the hedges, blah, blah blah. Then she tells me I have CRS: Can't remember shit. Funny, I don't seem to have a problem remembering the proper temp to dough-in malted grains or the PPG finely-ground corn produces.
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