I've read a lot on this form about yeast starters, beginning with this tutorial. I'm a little confused about when you need to step up and when you can just do a simple starter.
I plan to brew a 5g batch with OG 1.066. Per Mrmalty and yeastcalc.com I need about 229 billion yeast cells. MrMalty shows approximately 1.5 L of starter needed. Yeastcalc.com appears to default with 1.5L for the first step - yielding 225 byc, which is close to the target.
So...can I get away with a single 1.5L starter? Or, best to step it up with 800mL to 1.6L (per the tutorial)? I understand why you don't want to start with too large a volume of wort - but yeastcalc seems to default to a 1.5L starter, so I'm confused.
I plan to brew a 5g batch with OG 1.066. Per Mrmalty and yeastcalc.com I need about 229 billion yeast cells. MrMalty shows approximately 1.5 L of starter needed. Yeastcalc.com appears to default with 1.5L for the first step - yielding 225 byc, which is close to the target.
So...can I get away with a single 1.5L starter? Or, best to step it up with 800mL to 1.6L (per the tutorial)? I understand why you don't want to start with too large a volume of wort - but yeastcalc seems to default to a 1.5L starter, so I'm confused.