Doing a 5 gallon Bells Oberon batch as my first AG, and decided to try to harvest their yeast from the bottle. I took the dregs from 3 bottles of 1 week old Oberon and made a starter out of 1/2 cup DME and 1 pint of water, boiled about 10 min, cooled and added both the dregs and wort to a 1L flask. Ended up with about 400MLs of fluid. Took a couple of days for krausen, then i cooled and decanted.
Then i stepped it up with 3/4 cup DME and 1 1/2 pints of water, then added to flask for a volume of about 650ML. Fermentation started within 5 mins.
Now my question is, should I step it again? Or should I have enough yeast slurry? Plan on brewing Wednesday. Also, should I have some back up yeast on hand incase it doesnt take off. Thanks
Then i stepped it up with 3/4 cup DME and 1 1/2 pints of water, then added to flask for a volume of about 650ML. Fermentation started within 5 mins.
Now my question is, should I step it again? Or should I have enough yeast slurry? Plan on brewing Wednesday. Also, should I have some back up yeast on hand incase it doesnt take off. Thanks