No life?

Things aren't looking at all great for my yeast.

After four days, the bottle is looking decidedly lifeless:

Cueue dramatic music in minor key

Could be that I collected bottle yeast instead of  primary yeast. After all, when fermenting the wort, we want the yeast to be super active, converting the wort into beer at the best rate achievable. Once bottled, the only thing we want to yeast to do is produce enough carbon dioxide to make it fizz.
Too little of this and the beer is flat and lifeless and not all appealing.
Too much and the bottle might go ballistic at some random point, or at best gush out of the bottle as soon as you apply an opener to it.

So it could be just that: I may have been cultivating a bottle of low-activity bottle yeast.

...or these could all be corpses...

 

Off to find some apple juice to set up a parallel batch of something else. From what I hear, the monks at Westmalle use a yeast strain which is quite responsive to the treatment I've been attempting, so I might as well give it a shot.










Eight days to go until brewing day. Getting just a bit worried now...

Greetz

Jo