Hi,
I'll be brewing a 10 gallon beer shortly using a Wyeast lager style yeast. This means I need 12 million yeast cells/ml.
Using one package of Wyeast Activator, which contains 100 billion yeast cells, I'm trying to determind the volume of starter that I must make. This is what I came up with on their website:
So this means I would need to first inoculate 0.5 gallons of wort at 1.040, and then add that to 1 gallon of wort at 1.040 26 hours later?
Isn't that going to mess up my recipe? 1.5 gallons is a significant volume of liquid. Do I therefore need to include the amount of DME used in the starter to my grain bill, as well as adding 1.5 gallons of top up water to get my specs right?
Thanks for the help
I'll be brewing a 10 gallon beer shortly using a Wyeast lager style yeast. This means I need 12 million yeast cells/ml.
Using one package of Wyeast Activator, which contains 100 billion yeast cells, I'm trying to determind the volume of starter that I must make. This is what I came up with on their website:
So this means I would need to first inoculate 0.5 gallons of wort at 1.040, and then add that to 1 gallon of wort at 1.040 26 hours later?
Isn't that going to mess up my recipe? 1.5 gallons is a significant volume of liquid. Do I therefore need to include the amount of DME used in the starter to my grain bill, as well as adding 1.5 gallons of top up water to get my specs right?
Thanks for the help