Just made a starter with Goya Malta

[phissionkorps]

Well I tasted the starter right before I pitched. At least with white labs koelsch yeast...not very good. I made another malta polar starter with some yeast from a sierra nevada pale ale (btw...is that their brewing or bottling yeast?) and this starter at least smells a ton better.

 

[debaniel]

hmmm... i think SNPA uses a lager yeast for bottling, don't they?

 

[phissionkorps]

Alright, I just tasted the malta that was fermented with WLP005, and the other with the yeast from a bottle of SNPA. Both are terrible. They're just entirely too sweet. If I had to pick one, I'd say the one fermented with WLP005 was better, since the yeast gave it some flavor, though the sweetness was almost cloying. The SNPA bottle yeast was neutral and left no flavor but sweet.

Good for a starter, not good for drinking.

 

[fezzman]

I was comparing brands of malta in the store some time back. One brand, which I can't remember, strictly had water, malt, cane sugar, hops. I believe it had a red label on it. I chickened out of buying it though...looks like I may have to pick some up now to play with.