Yeast from my favorite Brewery

Champurrado · Jun 23, 2010

Brewery was generous enough to give me a pint of yeast from the fermenter. I brought along a sanitized mason jar. It's in the fridge now. I plan on making a starter in a few days for a brew on July 3rd. This will be an all grain starter - I made one with DME last time and didn't like the result.

Anyone else make starter's from brewery's yeast?

storunner13 · Jun 23, 2010

If you have a whole pint of thick yeast slurry, and It's only sitting around for a week, you probably won't need a starter. Double check Mr Malty's calculator to be sure. You might even want to split that yeast slurry to prevent over pitching.

ShortSnoutBrewing · Jun 23, 2010

When getting yeast from a brewery I've never needed to use a starter. Plenty of little workers in there to do the job.

Champurrado · Jun 23, 2010

Ha, that saves me a step, thanks. Do you think it will keep in the fridge for 10 or so days?

Thanks.

onemanlan · Jun 23, 2010

Yes, but it will settle out. You'll need to re-warm to room them and give them some time to kick back equilibrate to that temp.

Champurrado · Jul 3, 2010

Pitched half the yeast (Saved some for next time) and the carboy is ready to rack into secondary. I'm going to wash the yeast and save it for another batch. I'm a lucky guy!

MNDan · Jul 4, 2010

onemanlan said:
Yes, but it will settle out. You'll need to re-warm to room them and give them some time to kick back equilibrate to that temp.

Don't rewarm the yeast before pitching & a pint of slurry is way more than you need for a single batch of beer. Overpitching results in bland beers, so run the numbers with Mr. Malty to see how much you really need to pitch.

Also, here is some info cold pitching:

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f163/cold-pitching-good-read-176587/

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