Airlock not bubbling

[bluehomebrew]

I noticed on the FV in your Avatar that there is a brown tide mark around the FV, this is where your krausen stopped rising, having this visual mark means that initial fermentation has take place, not that it's still happening but a good sign that beer has happened/happening. Sometimes they rise higher and sometimes lower but a good visual.

Thanks @Banbeer that helps a lot. Also, I didn’t know that, so thank you for improving my knowledge!

 

[Banbeer]

Thanks @Banbeer that helps a lot. Also, I didn’t know that, so thank you for improving my knowledge!

No problem, just ask if in doubt, better than guessing

 

[Old Geezer]

I never forget something my grandfather told me when he worked in the Guinness brewery in Dublin his first job every morning was to fish the dead rats out of the vats.

Apparently they would fall in get drunk and drown or get drunk fall in and drown (not sure which way round it happened) even covering the vats with chicken wire didn't help as they would chew through it so obviously the Guinness was fermenting in open vats/fermenting vessels.

He used to say he'd never seen happier dead rats they all had big smiles on their faces and died happy.

All this happened a long time ago and my grandfather is long gone so I can't ask him when it was exactly but he was in the calvary in WW1 and as far as I know, it was around that time or just after so probably somewhere around 1920.

As far as I know, all the old wooden vats are long gone and it's all very hygienic now with all enclosed stainless steel, no wonder Guinness has gone downhill it no longer has the extra body and bite it used to have.

Gives a whole new meaning to the term Rat-Arsed or perhaps that is where it originated

 

[-Bezza-]

Gives a whole new meaning to the term Rat-Arsed or perhaps that is where it originated

I assume there were skunks and newts in there too...