dunnright00
Well-Known Member
Made my starter Fri night, and it took off well. Now the krausen has gone down quite a bit and it has this funky-looking clumpy trub.
Take a look:
What do you think?
Take a look:
What do you think?
Can you give some details on your starter? what did you make it out of, just standard DME, water, and yeast nutrient?
Looks like an English ale strain to me.
WLP005
I wouldn't be worried if not for the slight funky smell, and it's less than 48 hours and the krausen has already dropped.
Chill it and taste the spent wort...if it is funky or sour, toss it.
Misplaced_Canuck said:Wyeast #1968 makes amazingly odd-looking globs of yeast when it's active, and they "churn" up and down the fermenter while active! It's quite a site!
The clumps you see remind me of #1968.
M_C
Meh, I wouldn't worry about that either. Just because the beer on top of the yeast smells bad, even sour doesn't mean the yeast below is bad.
When we make a starter we are growing more yeast, we're not trying to make a good tasting tiny beer, so we usually don't hop it, or put it in a temp controlled eviroment. So the "beer" on top is not going to be in that great a condition. Often in summer our starter beers go sour, that's why some folks add a hop pellet or two to the boil. And then if we DO hop it, we're leaving it on our kitchen counter in bright sunlight and THAT'S going to skunk, and smell bad....
But unless you go the extra mile, that beer on top, which often sits in the sun, or in a hot room, and without hops is often going to smell, or even taste bad. But that tiny bit of beer won't effect the 5 gallons you are making. You can always decant the starter beer of the top and pitch it.
But I wouldn't scrap it. Half of the starters I've pitched I've never bothered to sniff, and of those I did, many smelled sour or other wise nasty, and I've still pitched them, and never had a bad beer.
If I remember, isn't 1968 the Wyeast version of 005?
That's what I was thinking.
This is bull****. If it's not right, why risk a batch? Get a packet of dry yeast and set your mind at ease. Might be, could be, should be, are all wishful thinking.
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