i fucking hate white labs yeast!

[TapItGood]

Loosen your s and relax. It will start and may have already, you might not have a seal on your lid. Take a nice big whiff....can you smell it fermenting. If it's fermenting you will definitely smell it.

[Brandon]

ok i know it makes for a better flaver profile and for some beer styles its a must. i wouldn't do a belgian without it but the shit almost never starts for me unless i make a starter. WELL I DIDN"T HAVE ANY FUCKING TIME TO MAKE A DAMN STARTER! its only a fucking 1.050 wheat beer. there is no reason for it not to start. piched at 75 degrees. it was at room temp.. i know i didn't shock it. and i'm gonna be gone till sunday and my homebrew shop dosn't open till tuesday! what the hell! now excuse me wile i go and oxigenate.. AGAIN!

tom

How do you have time to spend hours brewing but not 30 minutes to make a starter? Also I would suggest pitching lower than 75, the heat from the fermentation is gonna raise the temp up more than that.

[bleachcola]

I'm going to have to disagree with everyone. I wouldn't recommend relaxing at this point. You should probably flip out right about now.

[slowhead]

If you cant make a starter, then just pitch two vials...If you can't do that then just sh%$ in the fermenter and wait for the magic to happen

[DiscoFetus]

I've noticed something similar in my starters. Generally, only the hefeweiss strains cause a krausen in my starters. The others look the same as when I pitched the yeast. in the starter. So I just pitch it, trusting Ninkasi to cover my ass. Usually, they start in 5-6 hours.

Same. Although, I haven't used the Hefe yeast strains as a starter I've noticed I don't get a krausen. Just fizzies. Either way my beers take off within 5 hours or so, so I can't complain. I haven't tried Wyeast yet. At some point I'm going to, just to really see the difference.

[one_dead_soul]

well i got home late yesterday and it had started. but it also popped my carboy hood of the top of my carboy. i figure about 24 hours befor i got home. i guess that will teach me for brewing befor leaving town. oh well i guess. its only gonna sit for another week then its going into the fridge so i guess i don't have to worry to much about about whatever got in. stupid me

[Neuron_Theory]

Glad your beer has taken off.

Then again, if you buy a small erlenmyer (sic) flask, making a starter should not take more than 20-30 minutes a day before you brew.

I am cheap, so I just use a half gallon growler to do my starters in. It may not be the amount of yeast that Jamil's calculator says I need, but it's better than just pitching a tube, dipping my balls in, and crossing my fingers.

[one_dead_soul]

How do you have time to spend hours brewing but not 30 minutes to make a starter? Also I would suggest pitching lower than 75, the heat from the fermentation is gonna raise the temp up more than that.

ok.. well i work nights and homebrew shop is 30 some odd miles away. it opens at 10 am. so i got out of work at 6am. went to get the supplies and some lunch. got stuck doing something else after so i didn't get home till like 2-2:30. i kinda needed to got o bed because i had to work that night. but now that i think of it i could have made the starter befor i left that day and just pitched the yeast when i got home. stupid me... i know