Looks like we are brewing tomorrow night. A Schwartz beer. Is it to late to start a starter w/ only 30 plus hours to go? I have a smack pack that I'd be starting from.
I do mine the night before - 18-24 hours before I pitch it. I've been using wyeast 1056 and 1098 I washed from other batches and they've been doing great that way.
Like others said - better to do it short than skip it altogether.
Agreed. Better to do it than not. I've done starters the night before, and some of those batches have kicked off faster than anything else. One was going great guns (roughly 2-3 bubbles/second) in just a few hours or so.
I started mine late and within a few hours, it's bubbling rapidly. That's proof that the yeast will be multiplying rapidly. I need to rapidly take my heiny to bed.