Factoring Starter Wort into a recipe

[Owly055]

I'm building a rather large lager starter for a 2.5 gallon lager I plan in brewing this weekend. The idea is to over pitch and get through the cool fermentation (reproduction) stage rapidly, then finish at higher temperatures.

I have decided to incorporate the DME I used in the starter right into the recipe. The starter wort is really no different from any other wort. It has malt flavor and alcohol, so logic says that I should dump the works into the fermenter along with wort that has been boiled. When I build the recipe, I will simply include the amount of DME I used in the starter.

Is this a common practice, or are most folks allowing it to settle and pouring off the starter wort as waste? I have always brewed with dry yeasts, so this hasn't come up before.


H.W.

 

[EuBrew]

I don't brew lagers yet but everything I've read about them suggests you really should cold crash and decant your starter unless you are controlling the temps of your starter like you will the beer it's going into because of off favors.