Thought i`ll do a coopers pale ale with yeast from two stubbies,I put the dregs in a 1.25 coke bottle and for 5 days kept feeding about 100mls of malted water,during that time didn`t see any krausen but the bottle was full of pressure and quite a bit of sediment on the bottom of bottle.
So comes brew day when the wort was the same temp as the yeast 20 degress i pitched it in, after giving it the taste test.after 24 hours nothing 2nd day still nothing that night open fermenter and give it a stir, just looked quite cloudy when stirred,next morning still nothing,after work that night still no life,took the lid off gave it a stir and pitched a packet of the yeast that came with the kit.And Holy Mother what happened after that, it just frothed up and out of the fermenter
just like a bad chemical reaction and just kept frothing for about 30 seconds quickly put the lid back on ,and soon after she was off the air lock was working over time getting the co2 out.It`s the first time for me using the pale ale yeast this way just thinking that this type of yeast ferments without any krausen forming.
Thanks
Mario
