Activate the Yeast
When you start your brew day the first thing you do is start activating the yeast. This is an easy process of adding the yeast to room temperature sterilized water( by boiling a cup of water and let it cool) and set it aside. I have more detailed instructions in another post I wrote called Activating the Yeast. There are a few steps in there you should consider so I recommend that you give it a read through.