Duh

[Kaz]

I made a yeast starter last night for an ESB I'm brewing today. I go to get all my stuff together to brew and I find the vial of WLP002 still on the counter...duh. I have a pack of dry english ale yeast handy for emergencies. The question...I just pitched the vial into my flask that is on a stir plate, do I let that go for about 8 hours and pitch this evening, or would I be better off pitching the dry yeast? This is for an ESB with a OG of 1.048, 5 gal. batch. TIA.

 

[hoppheadIPA]

I'd wait a day and pitch the starter. You're already making it, might as well use it. It should take off pretty quick.

 

[slarkin712]

I'd pitch the starter after 8 hours. Most yeast growth in a starter is complete after 12 hours, so 8 is close enough. And it's a low gravity beer, so it wouldn't be much of an underpitch anyways. I've made an ordinary bitter OG 1.039 with that yeast and no starter and it came out good.

 

[Kaz]

Even though I really wanted to use the WLP002, I went with my back up dry yeast, S-04. The starter wort had sat all night at room temperature and I didn't want to take the risk of growing something in the starter that I didn't want. Probably not necessary, but I didn't want to take my chances.

 

[helibrewer]

Even though I really wanted to use the WLP002, I went with my back up dry yeast, S-04. The starter wort had sat all night at room temperature and I didn't want to take the risk of growing something in the starter that I didn't want. Probably not necessary, but I didn't want to take my chances.

That was probably the right choice since the wort was out all night.

 

[Kaz]

That was probably the right choice since the wort was out all night.

Even so, I now have a 1L starter of WLP002 going right behind me and I can't help thinking I should use it up in a week. Must have willpower and just pitch it