you might wanna sit down before reading....

[bungle666]

But i have had my first EVER coopers yeast fail!

Started an IPA on Wednesday, hoped it would be going by tonight, the stout I did at the same time HAD started with the usual coopers gusto, but the IPA was as dead as a dodo

anyhow, I have 2 other coopers kits on the shelf so i pinched the yeast out of a stout kit (I will drop this kit on the cake of the one that's on now ) and made a yeast starter... 2 Tbsps house sugar in a pint glass, add water at around 35°C and chucked the yeast in.. stirred and half hour later it had gone off like a rocket, spewing out of the bloody pint glass!

Ive added that to the Dead wort, and now that seems to be finally fermenting, although a little slow.... hmmmmm....

hopefully i have saved it, but it seems VERY strange as this stuff is normally uber reliable!

B..

[cellone]

Are you sure you put it in?

[masterosouffle]

Both sachets in the stout?

[Ditch]

Both sachets in the stout?

My thoughts, exactly. Making half a dozen at a time up, I've often enough caught myself thinking; " Hang about ..... Which one does This go in ....? "

I can well imagine anyone slinging the yeast into the same one of two identical buckets. A passing thought distracts our focus for a moment and there we are. Shit's happened.

[bungle666]

Are you sure you put it in?

Yep it went in!

Both sachets in the stout?

Not possible, i make each kit up separately, and always finish one completely before starting the next!

Both sachets in the stout?

My thoughts, exactly. Making half a dozen at a time up, I've often enough caught myself thinking; " Hang about ..... Which one does This go in ....? "

I can well imagine anyone slinging the yeast into the same one of two identical buckets. A passing thought distracts our focus for a moment and there we are. Shit's happened.

the buckets are neither identical, nor were they the same beer! this is a genuine case of yeast failure! as i said above mate, I do each kit completely separately and methodically to make sure i don't mix stuff up!

Anyhow, the addition of the starter has made it go like the clappers! so all is well that ends well, I just cant get over the failure!

B..

[Ditch]

Well, I guess this shall just become then the thread that illustrates, for the record; 'The exception that proves the rule'.

I mean, had ye come in here saying; " My Wherry has stuck " ? Place would be like: " No ...?!? "

That said? It's still spooky. Like; Why should this ONE sachet of yeast fail? Why? Not made by the sachet, is it? That bare teaspoon of yeast that failed, for you, would have been a few grains from a lorry load of the same sent out around the world. But, your pinch failed?

Don't expect ye retained the foil sachet? I suspect they might be stamped. Or even the bar code from the kit can label?

[bungle666]

Don't expect ye retained the foil sachet? I suspect they might be stamped. Or even the bar code from the kit can label?

Nah mate, all that went in the bin! your right! it is spooky like but hey ho, i guess it happens sometimes!

B..

[woblylegs]

i had one fail also. it was last year and it was the yeast that come with a coopers stout. i ended up putting another yeast in and all was fine.