lager starter temps

[Arbe0]

using wlp840 Pilsen lager yeast .. for a yeast starter.
says on packet 65-72 F (18-22C)
Lagers are fermented at 50 F so if I make a yeast starter from this does it need to be at 50 F or can I just do the yeast starter at room temperatures like I do with ales?
And when I do ferment the beer should it be at the regular 50 F?

 

[Cyclman]

Starter at room temp, ferment at 50. I do a d rest on all lagers- warm it up when 2/3 fermented.

 

[Arbe0]

thanks Cyclman that is the way I have done it in the past few that I did, but it just hit me that I may be doing it wrong. The other lagers turned out find but you know when you get something in your head it sticks.

 

[Steveruch]

using wlp840 Pilsen lager yeast .. for a yeast starter.
says on packet 65-72 F (18-22C)
Lagers are fermented at 50 F so if I make a yeast starter from this does it need to be at 50 F or can I just do the yeast starter at room temperatures like I do with ales?
And when I do ferment the beer should it be at the regular 50 F?

Yeast will happily reproduce at higher temperatures than what makes good beer.

 

[Cyclman]

I will add that I cold crash and decant my starters when I do this

 

[hinkensj]

Some smart beer person (John Palmer, perhaps) once said: with a starter you are making yeast, not beer.

We focus on an environment that favors yeast reproduction and don't worry about the byproducts that would otherwise affect our beer.