BrewmanBeing
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I made a yeast starter about 30 hours ago for Czech Budejovice Lager Yeast (WLP802) and there is no activity. I made the starter by boiling .75 lbs of DME in a half gallon of water. I took the yeast out of the fridge and let it sit next to the starter overnight on the counter to both settle to 70 and then pitched the yeast into it the next morning. Here's where I made an idiot move: After pitching the yeast, I dumped the entire starter into a bowl and ran a hand mixer on it for about 5 minutes to aerate it. I am guessing that the mixer blades physically chopped up all my yeast cells to smithereens. Anyway, no activity. What should I do? Start over???? Lame.