First starter question

[weagle]

I'm brewing an AHS Ruination clone tomorrow and I'm making my first starter. The OG should be 1.073 so according to mr. malty I will need two smack packs and a starter of 1.03 liters with intermittent shaking. Is this correct? For some reason I was thinking I could just use one smack pack.

 

[Arneba28]

Yeah one pack will be pushing the limits of that yeast. I would go with 2 or make a starter with one pack and make it a big starter

 

[TipsyDragon]

maybe there is a variable you didn't mention but Mr. Malty suggests a 2 liter starter with 1 packet of yeast OR use 2.6 packets of yeast with no starter.

 

[weagle]

My yeast was produced on 3/8 which is how I got the viability. That may be how my numbers differed.