yeast starter

Sorry all...that's the best title I could think of. :) Here's my question: I have a recipe for a 5.5g fermentor volume. I'd like to increase that to 7ish. Is there a calculator out there? I've looked, but can't find one that does that. Here are some stats on the recipe & equipment. Keggles for...

Hey all, Yesterday (Thursday) I had malt milled and began my first lager-yeast starter. With ales I start the night before and have high kreuzen for a midday pitch by the following day. This morning, after noticing no discernible activity, I read that lager starters should sit on the stir...

Purging unused equipment, make an offer if you buy the whole lot, $150 for everything (over $250 in equipment) pictures of each item below: Maelstrom stir plate 2 50mm stir bars 1 50mm stir bar 2 2000mL Erlenmeyer flasks with stoppers 1 5000mL Erlenmeyer flask (wide mouth stopper from 2000mL...

Hi everyone. I'm overbuilding my starters in order to keep some for a next brew. Now I could find multiple calculators online to calculate the viability of dated commercial packaged yeasts but none that give you the viability of a starter. I usually use my starter within a few days but what...

So I'm new to using yeast starters and I pitched my first one into an Irish Red that I brewed on Monday 7/2. I was pleasantly surprised to see how vigorous the fermentation was @ 7 hours into it and by 20 there was about a 4-inch krausen. Now on day 4, there is barely any activity coming from...

So I'm going on my tenth batch of homebrew and finally picked up all of the things needed to make a proper yeast starter. It's spinning away right behind me as we speak. I think I might have made an error in calculating the size needed to fully ferment my beer. Beersmith is telling me I need...

What’s up B’s and G’s. Looking to scale up kettle sours from 5 gallon to 10 gallon batches. I typically follow Omega’s directions for 5 gallon batches. 1 liter starters at 1.040 for wort that is 1.033 OG. I’ve read that Lance Shaner from Omega said that one liter starters would effectively sour...

So I'm a fairly new homebrewer, using Imperial Yeast's A38 Juice for an NEIPA this weekend for the first time. I'm wondering if I should propagate a starter for it? My target post boil OG is 1.067. I appreciate any help!

Thanks for looking in: I followed this link to wash the yeast- https://www.brewersfriend.com/2010/01/30/yeast-washing-101/ The pic is my version of pic 6 in the link which is the end result of washing 1/3 of the Trub from my last harvest in a 1/2 gallon Jar and this is what I am left with...

I made a starter about 12 hours ago with White Labs (530) Abby Ale Yeast and I am a bit concerned. The color is dark brown. I have never seen a started of this color/dark before. I'm hoping that when I wake up in the morning it has lightened and I can see the flocculating yeast, but I am...

I have a yeast bank with around 10 different strain that I rotate through. I save yeast via larger than necessary starters, and not from slurries. Basically, I generally brew something with the oldest ones in the bank just to keep them healthy and somewhat fresh, and the bank therefor tells me...

I made a yest starter today for my NE IPA and I noticed (after I pitched my yeast) that some of the DME I used was stuck to the bottom of the Erlenmeyer flask. I boiled the water-DME mixture in the flask for 15 minutes and then chilled it like I normally do. Will the stuck dme at the bottom of...

I just started thinking if i make a starter and keep part of it. can i use it to re grow another starter to put back in tube. along with that if I can how many times can I re grow the same yeast.....UPDATE... I did it the other night and have two tubes now. but I can c some darker spots is that...

ok so im getting that i suck at math. does anyone know how much lme i should use for a 2l starter. all i find is lme threads on stater amounts. and ill b @#$% if i made one lastnight 1.5 liters and used 1 cup,damn thing was 1.060. i had to boil and cool more water. ended up at 1.037 wich im ok...

I was planning on brewing the other day but i wanted to put my new wort on some yeast cake. The problem was that the wort in the fermenter with the yeast cake was not done fermenting. I had a thought that maybe i could just siphon out some of the fermenting wort and put it into my new wort...

There are two main ways to make a yeast GF, the first is isolation then inoculation, the second is a dilution solution. We will start with the more complicated isolation and inoculation method. First you will need to pour GF agar plates, I would follow dkershner's method for making and...

Hello everyone, I have read the forum for quite some time, but this is my first post. I will be making a Scotch Ale this weekend with an expected OG of 1.083. I just did the math for the starter and came up with about 295billion cells needed for the pitch. That's close to a gallon of...

http://hardapplecider--thejourney.blogspot.com/ I am trying to get some yeast starters going simply using slices of apples and apple juice. So far I am having a low success rate . . . . with only one of the six actually fermenting (I have had them sit for 4 or 5 days now). (The one on the far...