First yeast starter - Is it finished?

[morbster]

I made my first yeast starter about 24 hours ago and woke up to it looking like this. Is it ready to pitch / chill and decant (if I wanted to, probably won't though)?

Should I keep the stir plate going, or turn off the stirrer until pitching?

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[kh54s10]

It looks good. I usually get a lighter creamy color, (it could be the lighting in the photo) but as long as it is cloudy it means - yeast. The foam on top is an indication that it worked. If you are brewing today, I would leave it on the stirplate until ready to pitch. If not, I would put it in the refrigerator until your brewday as long as it is within the week.

 

[jan_b19]

you can pitch a yeast starter within two days after high krausen unless you cool them. If you don't cool them and keep them for a few days (after high krausen you should feed them fresh wort a and wait for another krausen to be sure there's still enough yeast cells.

 

[pshankstar]

It looks good. I usually get a lighter creamy color, (it could be the lighting in the photo) but as long as it is cloudy it means - yeast. The foam on top is an indication that it worked. If you are brewing today, I would leave it on the stirplate until ready to pitch. If not, I would put it in the refrigerator until your brewday as long as it is within the week.

+1 to this comment! It looks good! Now get it into a batch of wort!

 

[morbster]

Thanks for the input, guys. I ended up stepping this up one more time before pitching it into my beer (7 gallons of 1.067 wort). It's happily munching away as we speak.