Quick yeast starter or straight wyeast??

[timschram]

I will be out of town all week, arriving home Friday late afternoon/early evening. I will be unavailable on Sunday. I want to brew up a French saison using wyeast 3711 French saison yeast on Saturday.

Question: do I do a starter on Friday night and use it on Saturday afternoon or do I buy and pitch a couple packs of 3711?

I don't know if I can do a starter that quickly as I've always done them two days in advance at minimum.

Thoughts?

 

[Calder]

Make starter on Friday. It should have plenty of time to reproduce.

 

[ricshayne]

starter

 

[daksin]

Do you have a stir plate? I'd want at least 24 hours for an unstirred starter.