Newfangled Starter Sizes?

[Clint Yeastwood]

When I left off brewing, people were using starters the size of kiddie pools. I am looking at an HBS site, and they advertise 5 oz. packs of DME for starters. I think that will get me around 1 liter for an ale I have in mind. Are people getting by with that little now?

I'm planning to make 5 gallons of ale at an OG of 1.057.

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

A 1 litre starter would likely be sufficient depending on the age of your yeast pack. I reccomend using a pitch rate calculator.. brewers friend has a nice simple one to use.

 

[Clint Yeastwood]

Thanks, man. I'm getting there.

 

[day_trippr]

I occasionally still use the Brewer's Friend yeast calculator, but years ago I started using the Homebrew Dad's/Brew United calculator as it really makes over-building starters dead simple...

Homebrew Dad's Online Yeast Starter Calculator

Use Homebrew Dad's Online Yeast Calculator to determine how many yeast cells you need to pitch into your wort.

www.brewunited.com

Cheers!

 

[Sammy86]

I occasionally still use the Brewer's Friend yeast calculator, but years ago I started using the Homebrew Dad's/Brew United calculator as it really makes over-building starters dead simple...

Homebrew Dad's Online Yeast Starter Calculator

Use Homebrew Dad's Online Yeast Calculator to determine how many yeast cells you need to pitch into your wort.

www.brewunited.com

Cheers!

+1 to this! Been using it for years now and always have excellent results!

 

[bailey mountain brewer]

I'll have to give that one a shot.

 

[IslandLizard]

I've been making slightly overbuilt (15-20%) 1.6 and 2 liter starters, leaving me enough to make a new (overbuilt) starter from for the next batch. Some have been perpetuated like that for several years (e.g., WY1318, ECY03, ECY13, etc.).

I also use BrewUnited's yeast calc.

For repitches and slurry evaluation, I hope someday to use Mr.Malty again, once a replacement for Flash 3.x has been built. They're at 2.x now.