Soooo... came home to this... seems I lost a lot of yeast. My brew day was tomorrow. What would you do? set this in the fridge now and decant slightly and pitch as usual or f the brew day and make a new starter for next week? First time using WLP001... brutal.
Leave it be and clean up the spilt wort/krausen on the plate. It's still fermenting so if you were to crash it now you would be cutting your starter short.
Thanks guys! This one calls for a blowoff... never seen a yeast so active so far! I've used it's dry sibling S-05, didnt seem to have this much krausen in the fermentor.
I had that happen over the summer with a Weissbier starter. It still came out great. You should be fine. You might want to take apart the stir plate though and give it a clean. I didnt do this and the next time I got it out, it had a "notable" aroma
I want to report back, due to all the supportive comments to use this anyways!
First time WLP001 user, holy SHHHH****T this stuff is active. Most vigorous fermentation I've ever had. Crazy C02 production too. Never seen so many visible bubbles being produced.
Thanks again! Hoping to bottle/keg this IPA in two weeks!