biggrizzly
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Do I leave my yeast starter on the stir plate until the end of fermentation? How do I know I'm done and ready for pitching?
Hockeyhunter99 said:wouldn't the presence of oxygen give the little buggers the proper condition for propagation and not fermentation? isn't that what a stir plate does? keeps the oxygen content to where propogation would possible and keeps them from fermenting. so why would the yeast stop reproducing after 18-24 hours?
i am so confused have i been doing this wrong the whole time?
Here is some good information from Yeast Calc on doing a starter. Looks like I will go to 24 hours with my stirplate as I was cutting it short at 12 hours.
I still need to find some ferm-cap S to stop the Kreusen from overflowing my flask. (not at my LHBS)
http://www.yeastcalc.com/careandfeeding.html
I thought that using a stirplate is not primarily for oxygenating the starter but rather to keep the yeast suspended and in contact with the sugar in the wort
I still need to find some ferm-cap S to stop the Kreusen from overflowing my flask. (not at my LHBS)
http://www.yeastcalc.com/careandfeeding.html
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