Boodlemania
Well-Known Member
I'm so psyched! I have some washed yeast in the downstairs beer fridge that's been there since the spring of '09. Decided to see if any of it was still viable, so on Wednesday I pulled one of my jars of WLP300.
The cake in the bottom of the jar was quite gray. But when I poured off the "beer" and gave it a sniff, it smelled fine. I made a 0.5L starter, set it on the stirplate, and poured in the yeast.
Nothing was happening as late as last night. The starter was still dark, though it smelled OK. I was beginning to get disheartened but by this morning the starter was a nice milky color. Seemed like it happened pretty quickly.
I made up a seperate 1L starter and set it aside. I turned off the stirplate and let the original starter settle for about 20 minutes then poured it off into the new starter, leaving (hopefully) all the dead gray yeasties in the original flask.
Now, this afternoon, the now 1.5L starter on my stirplate is nice, light, creamy, with a 2" krausen. Looks like I'll be ready to brew a batch of EdWort's Bee Cave Brewery Bavarian Hefeweizen next weekend!
WooHoo!
The cake in the bottom of the jar was quite gray. But when I poured off the "beer" and gave it a sniff, it smelled fine. I made a 0.5L starter, set it on the stirplate, and poured in the yeast.
Nothing was happening as late as last night. The starter was still dark, though it smelled OK. I was beginning to get disheartened but by this morning the starter was a nice milky color. Seemed like it happened pretty quickly.
I made up a seperate 1L starter and set it aside. I turned off the stirplate and let the original starter settle for about 20 minutes then poured it off into the new starter, leaving (hopefully) all the dead gray yeasties in the original flask.
Now, this afternoon, the now 1.5L starter on my stirplate is nice, light, creamy, with a 2" krausen. Looks like I'll be ready to brew a batch of EdWort's Bee Cave Brewery Bavarian Hefeweizen next weekend!
WooHoo!