Consequences of stressed yeast???

[JCasey1992]

I will be brewing up a hefe shortly. I made a starter for it and ended up using way too much DME. 2 cups in 2 liters to be exact. Through a separate post I made on this forum I've reached the conclusion that I will likely be fine but I do know I run the risk of stressed yeast. So here's my question. Just so I'm aware of what I'm looking for when I start drinking my hefe, what exactly are the consequences of stressed yeast? Is it off flavors or something else? The reason I'm so curious is because I'm going to be freezing some of this yeast for later use and I want to be certain it's healthy otherwise I'll just redo the starter.

Thank you,
Casey

 

[shortyz]

if your worried about it chances are when you taste it you will blame any off flavours on that. IMO i would just chuck it out if your concerned about its health. For the time its takes to make a new starter i think its good piece of mind...

 

[Ashevillain]

Agree, taste the beer as unbiased as possible. Check the fg and see if it ferments to a reasonable range for the style. Easiest solution is make a healthy starter if you want to have several gens. If you want to get more than 1 gen out of the yeast it will work but by textbook it may not be the healthiest. That doesnt garuantee there will be percievable differences between that yeast and a more ideal culturing. It would make an interesting experiment and give you more comparative experience to give that starter a shot for more than 1 gen unless u get off flavors in the first batch.

 

[JCasey1992]

Thanks for your responses. I am going to go ahead and proceed as planned and try to taste as unbiased as possible. Correct me if this is bad information but through reading a separate post, I heard that problems don't typically occur until a starter gravity of around 1.065 and if my calculations are right I only have like a 1.058 so I'm not overly worried. With that in mind, I don't believe bias will be an issue.

Thank you,
Casey

 

[Ashevillain]

Yeah i wouldnt be worried about it. Make sure to shake the fermentor for a solid minute to get some o2 in the wort before pitching and next few gens will be fine.