Douglefish
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I've been using MrMalty.com and his yeast pitching calculator, but there is one question that still puzzles me a little?
If you are making a 11 gallons of big beer (1.080ish?) using a stir plate it calls for something like almost a 1 gallon starter, which is huge. This i'm ok with, but what confuses me is that it calls for 2 vials of yeast?
Why do you need to vials, when 1 smack pack it enough to ferment out about 5 gallons of lighter beer, so I'm sure it would ferment out that 1 gallon starter.
Does it yield less yeast?
What if I pitched the vial into a half gallon, and then added another half gallon on to it? Does this produce more or less that 1 vial directly in 1 gallon.
Finally, what if I pitched the 1 vial into a half gallon, chilled, decanted, and then pitched into the 1 gallon?
I've read a lot and didn't find the specific answer to this question, sorry if I missed it.
Thanks
If you are making a 11 gallons of big beer (1.080ish?) using a stir plate it calls for something like almost a 1 gallon starter, which is huge. This i'm ok with, but what confuses me is that it calls for 2 vials of yeast?
Why do you need to vials, when 1 smack pack it enough to ferment out about 5 gallons of lighter beer, so I'm sure it would ferment out that 1 gallon starter.
Does it yield less yeast?
What if I pitched the vial into a half gallon, and then added another half gallon on to it? Does this produce more or less that 1 vial directly in 1 gallon.
Finally, what if I pitched the 1 vial into a half gallon, chilled, decanted, and then pitched into the 1 gallon?
I've read a lot and didn't find the specific answer to this question, sorry if I missed it.
Thanks