Will 800ml of starter wort fermented at 68-70F into 2.5G HT clone be detrimental to the finish product?
If I refrigerate the starter tonight, pull out of fridge in the morning, decant and allow to warm up prior to pitching late Sat afternoon will I be tossing out the majority of my healthy yeast given Conan is very slow to clear?
I've read various threads on the "to decant or not to decant" question and come away with mixed opinions from those posts. I've also read that Conan takes weeks at refrigerator temps to settle out and that the last of the yeast to settle are the stronger more robust cells. I'm brewing NB's HT clone tomorrow, 1/10/15, scaled down to 2.5G (I do small batches). Here is where I am today:
I kicked off a 1.4L ~1.040 starter wort (intend to save 600ml) Wens evening at 10p on a stir plate from a 1 mo old (use by date is 3/1/15) vial of Yeast Labs VT Ale yeast (Conan strain). It hit high krausen about 18-20 hours post-pitch. The attached photo is at ~36 hours (this morning). My plan is to keep 3-half pint mason jars of the starter in the fridge for future starters and pitch the remaining starter (~800ml) into my 2.5G HT clone Sat evening.
If I refrigerate the starter tonight, pull out of fridge in the morning, decant and allow to warm up prior to pitching late Sat afternoon will I be tossing out the majority of my healthy yeast given Conan is very slow to clear?
I've read various threads on the "to decant or not to decant" question and come away with mixed opinions from those posts. I've also read that Conan takes weeks at refrigerator temps to settle out and that the last of the yeast to settle are the stronger more robust cells. I'm brewing NB's HT clone tomorrow, 1/10/15, scaled down to 2.5G (I do small batches). Here is where I am today:
I kicked off a 1.4L ~1.040 starter wort (intend to save 600ml) Wens evening at 10p on a stir plate from a 1 mo old (use by date is 3/1/15) vial of Yeast Labs VT Ale yeast (Conan strain). It hit high krausen about 18-20 hours post-pitch. The attached photo is at ~36 hours (this morning). My plan is to keep 3-half pint mason jars of the starter in the fridge for future starters and pitch the remaining starter (~800ml) into my 2.5G HT clone Sat evening.