r8rphan
Well-Known Member
Usually, I use dry yeast... Doing 10-11g batches and pouring 1 pack in each 6.5g carboy...
So this time I decided to try a yeast starter with liquid yeast (WLP002)..
Made the starter in a mason jar, it fermented for a little less than 3 days in my fermentation chamber before pitching.... It was still producing gas,,, had a nice 1/2" or better yeast cake on the bottom...
So after the brew yesterday, I took off the airlock, replaced the mason jar airlock top with a sanitized solid top, and shook the crap out of it... Everything seemed 'definitely suspended'... no yeast cake at all on the bottom..
Poured half of it into a sanitized measuring cup and pitched it into one carboy... Replaced the lid, shook the crap out of it again and then poured the rest into the measuring cup and pitched it into the other carboy....
Shook the crap out of both carboys for a good minute each to aerate like I do with the dry yeast (place the carboy on it's side on my knee and rock it back and forth to get the liquid sloshing and foaming violently)..
I pitched the yeast at 9:15 pm last night both wort and yeast at 68 degrees... Raised the fermentation temp to 70 degrees when I went to bed at midnight.. No obvious fermentation at that time, but the second carboy was showing signs of producing gas...
This morning, the second carboy is flocculating nicely, no activity at all from the first.... Shouldn't they be acting 'identical?'
So this time I decided to try a yeast starter with liquid yeast (WLP002)..
Made the starter in a mason jar, it fermented for a little less than 3 days in my fermentation chamber before pitching.... It was still producing gas,,, had a nice 1/2" or better yeast cake on the bottom...
So after the brew yesterday, I took off the airlock, replaced the mason jar airlock top with a sanitized solid top, and shook the crap out of it... Everything seemed 'definitely suspended'... no yeast cake at all on the bottom..
Poured half of it into a sanitized measuring cup and pitched it into one carboy... Replaced the lid, shook the crap out of it again and then poured the rest into the measuring cup and pitched it into the other carboy....
Shook the crap out of both carboys for a good minute each to aerate like I do with the dry yeast (place the carboy on it's side on my knee and rock it back and forth to get the liquid sloshing and foaming violently)..
I pitched the yeast at 9:15 pm last night both wort and yeast at 68 degrees... Raised the fermentation temp to 70 degrees when I went to bed at midnight.. No obvious fermentation at that time, but the second carboy was showing signs of producing gas...
This morning, the second carboy is flocculating nicely, no activity at all from the first.... Shouldn't they be acting 'identical?'