Your buddy loses his beer? Did he look behind the couch?
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I wish someone would brew me a nice American Bock.
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Hey Dartgod, got any airlock activity?
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Not yet. Last time I checked was before work, around 7 a.m. At that point it had been about 17 hours. Should I be concerned?
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What did you use to clean your containers before adding the wort?
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Clean? What do you mean?
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You have to do that in order to prevent and infection in the beer. I used iodine
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No, I don't think so. I've had them take more than 24 hours to get going. If it's still not going when you get home you might want to shake the bucket a little. This can help spur things on. My chocolate stout was a bit slow and shaking the shit out of the carboy was the cure.
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The :blvd: smiley made me think of it, but has anyone checked the price on Boulevard lately? It's up to around $8 a six pack down here, which is just freaking ridiculous.
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Yikes! I buy beer (at least finished product) so little anymore that I had no idea. :-) My ales typically price out somewhere in the $15-20 per case and it will only get cheaper when I go all-grain.
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Sweet! Good luck with that 1st batch, it sounds tasty.
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Hehe. Just messing with you.
I used BTF? or something like that. It's an iodophor.
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:-) I was thinking Uh-Oh.
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:-)
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OK, I'm starting to worry a bit. Came home from work and no action yet. It's been about 29 hours since I pitched the yeast. I just took the wort's temp, its at 62 degrees. I had moved the fermentor to a cooler room last night because I pitched the yeast at 76 degrees and I wanted it to cool down a bit. I just moved it back to a warmer room and swirled the wort around pretty vigorously.

Any ideas or am I going to have to throw some more yeast in? I still have a package of dry yeast here.
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