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...

https://www.brewunited.com/yeast_calculator.php
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...

https://www.brewunited.com/yeast_calculator.php
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.