HELP! About to pitch but gone all crazy!

[periolus]

Okay, I brewed AG2 today and it is a Best Bitter, that I hope will be nice! I am using St. Austell Proper Job yeast that was skimmed off by a fellow brewer, who had used it in a stout. Got the thing out of the fridge (about 350ml in a drink bottle) and it has been warming up most of the day.

I put my STC-1000 probe in it, sterilised with HPPA, and suddenly there is **** loads of activity and it is going mental in the bottle. It has totally re-mixed with the wort it had separated from and there is lots of activity.

What should I do? Shall I put my wort in the FV in my brew fridge and just leave the yeast to stop what it's doing? Will it harm it? Could it just be a reaction to the HPPA? Do I need new yeast?

PLEASE HELP! I don't want to wreck my brew. It's my first AG brew on my new kit ; (

 

[jonnymorris]

I'm no yeast expert but, if you've any doubts, you may be better off pitching a yeast you know is healthy into your precious AG wort. Aleman wrote something interesting about yeast starters recently... I'll see if I can dig it out.

 

[rich27500]

It could be fine but you'll be gutted if you ruin a batch

 

[The Goatreich]

I agree with the above, I recently pitched a cultured yeast and ruined a batch of APA. I'm using another cultured yeast today, but I'm going to taste and smell the starter before pitching, and if I have any doubt I'm going to use a packet of US-05 I have in reserve.

 

[periolus]

Oh dear. I hadn't received replies at the time, and was drunk, so I pitched it. Worse than that, my STC reckons the wort is at 15.7C!? How? My dining room is at 19!

I'll keep an eye out today.

 

[fbsf]

Ah. Fingers crossed it'll be ok for you B.

How's the shiny AG kit coming along? The FV and pressure barrel I had off you a couple of months back are still doing well, and the FV has my AG2 in it at the moment!

 

[periolus]

Glad it's going welI! I have just done AG2, which is now fermenting following my panic and feelings of doom! Hopefully I pitched the right amount and it will have been healthy enough,

Are you up for coming to the brewing circle on Thursfay?

Shiny kit is very shiny and just needs a chiller now : ) beautiful!