Hello homebrewers,
I've been brewing for a while now and I recently decided to harvest my yeast. Since everytime I saw someone using harvested yeast, he was using a starter, I decided to do as so. I had never use a starter before and frankly, I don't really know why I should. I've been brewing several beers, a lot over 1.070 OG and even over 1.090 OG and I never had a problem. My beers always turned out good and I could see the krausen appear after 24 hours or less.
So, I know a lot of you use starter everytime, but is there a reason other than :"I just want to make sure that nothing goes wrong" ?
BTW, I normally use white labs yeast that I buy at my local homebrew store.
I've been brewing for a while now and I recently decided to harvest my yeast. Since everytime I saw someone using harvested yeast, he was using a starter, I decided to do as so. I had never use a starter before and frankly, I don't really know why I should. I've been brewing several beers, a lot over 1.070 OG and even over 1.090 OG and I never had a problem. My beers always turned out good and I could see the krausen appear after 24 hours or less.
So, I know a lot of you use starter everytime, but is there a reason other than :"I just want to make sure that nothing goes wrong" ?
BTW, I normally use white labs yeast that I buy at my local homebrew store.