Brubox Bavarian Wheat Beer - no bubbles

[adamjth]

Hi,

I am doing a Bavarian Wheat Beer('beers of the world') using my brubox and I have noticed that I am still not getting any fermentation co2 bubbles in my water filled jam jar after 3 days. I did a London Bitter last month and bubbles started after one day. I have positioned them in the same place so I would expect them to be same room temperature. Can some tell me if Wheat Beer should take longer or have I done something wrong?

thanks Adam

[CrownCap]

Take off the blow off tube, close the tap and give it a good shake up then set up the blow off tube again. There is a chance that your yeast just sank to the bottom when sprinkled in and is just sitting there. Get it back into suspension and it might start working. If nothing happens within a day then you may have had a duff packet of yeast - get another packet and pitch it in.

Be worth checking the ambient temperature just to check its not too cold.

[adamjth]

Thanks for your reply. I will give it a thorough shake tonight! As regards yeast does it have to coming from a brewing outlet? There a hardware store down the road that sells the Beer kits but not sure they will sell the yeast sachets

[CrownCap]

Not sure what yeast is used for this kit (would like to think its Brewferm Blanche as Brupaks distribute it). If you're really lucky and you local shop has some 'speciality' dried yeasts then the ones to look for are Danstar Munich, Safbrew WB-06, Brewferm Blanche (may be described/packaged as Brupaks Wheat Yeast) or maybe even Safbrew T-58. If your local shop has none of these then you could use any ale yeast (Safale S-04 and Nottingham/Gervin are the most likely candidates), you just won't get all the usual wheat beer flavours, many of which come from the yeast.

Best of luck!