My brother froze my yeast

[kh54s10]

A starter is only DME and no hops run at temperatures good for the yeast but bad for making beer. I hear that a lot do drink the starter beer. I am not one of them! Warm flat low ABV non hopped "beer" is not what I would like.

 

[MX1]

With my shaken not stirred starters, while not a balanced product, the starter beer is fine.

If it ever smells off or taste off I don't use it, why would I want that in my beer?

 

[kh54s10]

With my shaken not stirred starters, while not a balanced product, the starter beer is fine.

If it ever smells off or taste off I don't use it, why would I want that in my beer?

All starters smell off to me. I don't like the smell of most yeasts. And some smell terrible. I have never tasted one. Decant and very little of that "beer" goes into the wort.

 

[eadavis80]

I did not use/save the starter wort. My question was if starter wort's yucky flavor was an indicator that the yeast was not very good even though it fermented the starter. Again - if I want to keep any of the 1010 I'll harvest n' wash from the currently fermenting batch that was made with fresh 1010 and used to make a starter the day before brew day.

 

[kh54s10]

Can't tell you. I have never tasted a starter "beer". But, I would not expect it to taste good either.

 

[JohnSand]

I recently tasted two starters, they were good. But I was stepping up and let them ferment completely and flocc out. I was just drinking un-hopped beer.