Is my Wine stuck?

[country joe]

Or do I have no patience?
made a batch of Beaverdale Barolo 30 bottle kit, made yesterday to instructions. in 23 litre bucket with airlock on lid.
Yeast was added at 75f at 10am yesterday, just had a look at 8.30am and no bubbles coming from airlock, is this usual, if not, what can I do.

 

[oldbloke]

1st thing yeast has to do is make more yeast, quite a lot more in a 30bottle volume.
This takes time: up to 3 days occasionally. It doesn't get onto the sugar->alcohol+CO2 thing until after that.
Just give it a good stir to make sure it has oxygen in it for the yeast to use to grow more yeast

 

[bobsbeer]

It has probably started, but as you have it in a bucket they are notoriously bad to seal properly. If you can see bubbles on the surface it's fermenting. Don't always go by the airlock bubbles.

 

[country joe]

It has probably started, but as you have it in a bucket they are notoriously bad to seal properly. If you can see bubbles on the surface it's fermenting. Don't always go by the airlock bubbles.

Thanks Bob, yes there are bubbles on the surface. :thumb: