Pitching yeast starter

[65chevy11]

Wanted to know if it would be okay to pitch a yeast starter that is still fermenting. There is a pretty good Krausen but foam and activity still happening.


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[65chevy11]

Forgot to add it's going in a Strawberry blonde and with a gravity of about 1.051 and the yeast i'm using is the White Labs WLP080 cream ale blend.

 

[unionrdr]

Mine was the same way. Active is good,especially since you've got krausen,which is yeast foam. I've read others pitching at that point. So I just stirred it up & pitched it. But mine was only about 1 1/2C. It was for a 1.044 wort,so I figured that was fine. Workin great so far.

 

[dale1038]

That is fine. Some people even feel it's ideal to pitch at high krausen. I've done it every which way. I can't say it's made a big difference one way or another.

 

[steakandale]

How long has the starter been working? anything is more then what it started it. I've thrown starter in as early as around 6 hours. Obviously its better with 24-48 hours of reproduction to work with.
1.051 is not an overly big beer so even pitching a liquid vial as is, or a dry packet will work against that level of OG. - it just takes longer to go to town on it.
You can either give it 12-24 hrs and pitch, or do it now. I don't think either option will make much difference in overall fermentation time. plus or minus one day when your waiting around a week anyway...Starters are more help with big beers - over 1.060 (just as a general rule).
if you had a higher OG I would suggest growing more starter.

 

[65chevy11]

It's been about 13 1/2 hours so far.

 

[unionrdr]

Home brew TV's doing a multi show thing on yeast. He said it's like 1 million yeast cells per milliliter of wort. Whatever amount that is...

 

[steakandale]

Okay. Start making beer then!