Dark DME starter

[Grreg2]

I will be brewing a Stout beer later this week. Pretty much everything I have seen says to use light DME for a starter. Is it ok to use Dark DME for this starter being that it is a dark beer.? Thanks.

 

[Black Island Brewer]

You're fine. Any color and flavor from the starter will be lost in the stout. If you were brewing a lighter beer, you could chill and decant most of the spent starter wort.

 

[BierGut]

Just make sure your starters gravity is ~1.030 so you're not stressing the yeast