Is this normal

[jmager76]

Gently expired white labs Zurich lager yeast
Made small starter 1000ml water to 54 grams of dme with pinch of yeast nutrient .Only on stir plate for about 12 hours.

 

[Rob2010SS]

Never seen that before. Can't help you with an answer but definitely interested to hear what people say.

 

[Queequeg]

That is some very wired flocculation, looks like tofu

 

[mongoose33]

Not normal in my experience. Looks like DME that caked on the bottom of the jar and then broke into pieces.

 

[Smellyglove]

How many have experience with that yeast? Even if it doesn't look normal, if you did things correctly, i'd say use it, even though it does look "unique", but I havent used that yeast before, maybe it's perfectly normal for it.

 

[jmager76]

That's why I was asking I've made a lot of starters but never came across this. Looks almost like clay balls

 

[Smellyglove]

A 007 or 002 starter also looks weird the first time you put it on a stirplate. This sounds weird, but to me it looks great, even though it looks odd, I'd want to eat it.

 

[jmager76]

I'm going to step up the starter and see what happens

 

[paneubert]

Yeah, while I have not used this specific yeast, I can second the comment about 002. It looks really weird. I would not be surprised if this one is also weird.

Edit: Found this. Looks like yours. I think you are ok.
https://www.pictaram.org/post/BA5-SXNI3AI