So, I came home drunk last night and knew I had to make my starter for a Pike Kilt lifter clone to be brewed on Saturday (est. 1.067 OG).
I've never made a starter, and never used Mr. Malty (luckily I found a link to the calculator because I was either on the wrong site, or the calculator link is impossible to find when drunk). Mr. Malty told me I needed over 2 liters of starter (can't remember the exact volume); having only a 2 liter flask, I decided 2L would be appropriate. Somewhere I found that for 2 liters I needed X amount of grams and X amount of grams = 1 1/2 cups (X is unknown because I was drunk and didn't have a scale, so it was irrelevant).
Does this sound right? 1 1/2 cups of light DME to 2L of water?
So I attempt to boil the flask in a pan with water in it. After about 30 minutes of boiling and running the pan dry twice, I gave up and thought it was probably sanitary enough. I then ran it under some cool water and then an ice bath. I THEN added the DME which basically put the level of liquid all the way to my stopper.
Is this correct? or should I have put my DME in, then added water up TO 2L?
Anyway...it's going now (hopefully). With a bung and airlock despite having heard NOT to use an airlock. I might switch to foil tonight.
Any tips, tricks, pointers? The "pictorial" yeast starter won't load for me, so that was out. Is this going to krausen over? I have it sitting in a small stock pot in case that happens.
I've never made a starter, and never used Mr. Malty (luckily I found a link to the calculator because I was either on the wrong site, or the calculator link is impossible to find when drunk). Mr. Malty told me I needed over 2 liters of starter (can't remember the exact volume); having only a 2 liter flask, I decided 2L would be appropriate. Somewhere I found that for 2 liters I needed X amount of grams and X amount of grams = 1 1/2 cups (X is unknown because I was drunk and didn't have a scale, so it was irrelevant).
Does this sound right? 1 1/2 cups of light DME to 2L of water?
So I attempt to boil the flask in a pan with water in it. After about 30 minutes of boiling and running the pan dry twice, I gave up and thought it was probably sanitary enough. I then ran it under some cool water and then an ice bath. I THEN added the DME which basically put the level of liquid all the way to my stopper.
Is this correct? or should I have put my DME in, then added water up TO 2L?
Anyway...it's going now (hopefully). With a bung and airlock despite having heard NOT to use an airlock. I might switch to foil tonight.
Any tips, tricks, pointers? The "pictorial" yeast starter won't load for me, so that was out. Is this going to krausen over? I have it sitting in a small stock pot in case that happens.
