stormtracker
Well-Known Member
Ok i use the Wyeast smack pack. Additionally I have been making starters.
I make High Gravity beers, Trippels and Dubbels so yeast washing doesnt seem to be an option or so I have been told here in subsequent threads.
My question is this. The Wyeast smack pack supposedly has 100 billion yeast cells. So can I do my starter and save 1/2 of it for a future brew?
Im wondering by doing a 24 hour or a 48 hour starter I would increase my yeast cells by double or triple? Maybe more? Then put 1/2 the yeast in a canning jar that has been sanitized in the fridge for later use. Then use the remaining to pitch on my current brew.
Anyone see any issues, try this method, or have any input on this idea I have had?
Thank you
ST
I make High Gravity beers, Trippels and Dubbels so yeast washing doesnt seem to be an option or so I have been told here in subsequent threads.
My question is this. The Wyeast smack pack supposedly has 100 billion yeast cells. So can I do my starter and save 1/2 of it for a future brew?
Im wondering by doing a 24 hour or a 48 hour starter I would increase my yeast cells by double or triple? Maybe more? Then put 1/2 the yeast in a canning jar that has been sanitized in the fridge for later use. Then use the remaining to pitch on my current brew.
Anyone see any issues, try this method, or have any input on this idea I have had?
Thank you
ST