Started My Starter Too Late

[muse435]

I started my starter about 24 hours ago thinking it would be ready for this afternoon. oops. So now that i am half way through my mash i looked over at my flask and the yeast are not settling out. With the LHBS closed on sunday what should I do?

Right now all i can think to do is dump the whole started in the the fermenter and just hope for the best. Anyone else have a thought?

 

[MattyIce]

How big is the beer and starter?

 

[LLBeanJ]

Just pitch it all. It's what's known as pitching the starter at high-krausen (maybe a little after "high" krausen since it's been working for 24+ hours, but the starter is still working, so more like semi-high krausen). You only really need to let it finish completely if cold crashing to decant before pitching.

 

[muse435]

How big is the beer and starter?

1.068 est OG

900mL Starter - California

 

[william_shakes_beer]

sooo, you're doing a 5 gallon starter. Pitch it when the wort is down to temp.

 

[Cajunbrewer87]

Pitch it! I pitched a starter friday night that I had going for 24 hours, fermentation took off in 2 hours, very vigorous too.

 

[muse435]

thank you all for the help. i just pitched it all. It took a while for fermentation to take off tho. unfortunately i had a lot of blow off on the starter. i need to refine my starter technique. it is now happily bubbling away.