London Ale 3

[user 4749]

Pitched a London Ale 3 yeast on Monday Morning in a MM Confux Pale Ale and it's not started fermenting. Is it normal for it to take so long to start any activity with this Yeast? I have not used it before.
Was wondering about pitching another yeast but obviously don't have another London Ale all I have is CML Midland .

 

[obscure]

I should stress I have only used London III twice looking at my notes the lag time for me was 24 and 36 hours respectively, both fairly small 11L batches of lowish gravity Mild.

 

[MickDundee]

Did you use a starter? What was the manufacturing date of the yeast?

It’s most likely on but might take time to get going if the cell count wasn’t optimum.

 

[user 4749]

Did dona starter never had an issue before with withbany of their yeasts, it was dated end of Dec 22 .

 

[user 4749]

Eventually activity so all is well

 

[AJA]

It's amazing the variability in lag time. My longest is M44 which was almost 3 days. My shortest on the last brew was a starter made from harvested London Fog, which took less than 2 hours to get munching. Shows we should get too worried too quickly.

 

[Big_Eight]

If you don't see any activity in 2-3 days then there might be an issue otherwise sit back and have a pint.

 

[user 4749]

Never used London Ale 3 before but 3 days is a lotnof waiting and sitting back having a pint . Hope this Conflux Pale Ale is worth it.

 

[AJA]

London 3 is the same as Lalbrew Verdant IPA, which is known for fermenting quickly and vigorously, so slightly weird that this one has taken a while.

 

[Big_Eight]

London 3 is the same as Lalbrew Verdant IPA, which is known for fermenting quickly and vigorously, so slightly weird that this one has taken a while.

I've brewed a bit with Wyeast 1318 (London ale III) while usually quick I've had it take a couple days to start every now and again.

 

[Covrich]

I do not remember bit lag with it

A big krausen yes!!!