First time with yeast starter

Homebrewer12 · Mar 18, 2011

Hello everyone.

I'm new here and I was hoping to get some insight. This is the first time ive ever did a yeast starter. I boiled 2 cups of water with 1/2 cup DME for 15 min. Upon cooling it in an ice bath I noticed stringy white strands floating around in the wort when I swirled it. Is this normal? Should I throw it out and not risk adding my white labs Belgian Ale Yeast?

Thanks,
-Will

Golddiggie · Mar 18, 2011

What kind of DME did you use?

A picture would help here... It could just be ice crystals that you're seeing... What's the temperature of the starter wort?

ElDuderino · Mar 18, 2011

When you boil DME for a starter, break material forms normally. I think that is probably what you are seeing and it's not a problem.

Homebrewer12 · Mar 19, 2011

Yes it turns out that it was naturally forming dme that clumped together. I was using a light organic dme from 7 bridges brewery.

Golddiggie · Mar 19, 2011

"light orgasmic DME"?

Suppose that's better than having it shaking all over the place while you're yeast is going down on it. :rockin:

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