dfohio
Well-Known Member
I'm making an Oktoberfest using Wyeast Bavarian Lager this weekend.
I stepped a up the yeast from a frozen vial I had to 3500ml on my stirplate. Mr. Malty gave me a 4.16 liter requirement but I seem to think his numbers are off.
Anyways, the starter has now crash cooled and I usually use these two resources to estimate my number of yeast cells.
MB Raines, Ph.D. - Guide to Yeast Culturing for Homebrewers - Maltose Falcons Home Brewing Society (Los Angeles Homebrewing)
Wyeast Laboratories : Commercial : Breweries : Technical Information : Yeast Harvesting
That being said, I have estimated I can get about 180 million cells per ml in a starter, thus 630 billion yeast cells this time around and Mr. Malty says I would need 422 billion cells.
So my question is this; Would this be overpitching? and Would this matter in a lager because it is supposed to have a clean fermentation anyways?
I stepped a up the yeast from a frozen vial I had to 3500ml on my stirplate. Mr. Malty gave me a 4.16 liter requirement but I seem to think his numbers are off.
Anyways, the starter has now crash cooled and I usually use these two resources to estimate my number of yeast cells.
MB Raines, Ph.D. - Guide to Yeast Culturing for Homebrewers - Maltose Falcons Home Brewing Society (Los Angeles Homebrewing)
Wyeast Laboratories : Commercial : Breweries : Technical Information : Yeast Harvesting
That being said, I have estimated I can get about 180 million cells per ml in a starter, thus 630 billion yeast cells this time around and Mr. Malty says I would need 422 billion cells.
So my question is this; Would this be overpitching? and Would this matter in a lager because it is supposed to have a clean fermentation anyways?