Brulosopher
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I want to brew 2 beers with WLP810 San Francisco Lager yeast... and I have a single vial. Here's what I'm thinking, please let me know if you think this will work or not.
First off, I used YeastCalc.com to determine all of my numbers. I will be making a 1.052 Cal Common and a 1.050 Honey Blonde(ish), requiring 267 and 257 cells, respectively. My plan...
1. Initially make a single 3 liter starter in a 5 L, chill the wort and pitch the entire vial of yeast; place it on stir plate for about an hour or so; pour 1.5 L of the beer into the 2 L flask and leave both on stir plates until they finish fermenting.
2. Whenever they're done fermenting, probably 3 days or so, cold crash over night, decant, and pour another 1 L of fresh (chilled) wort into each flask, then let them both ferment out completely again, another 3 days I suppose.
3. Cold crash, decant, pitch into respective brews.
According to YeastCalc, this "should" leave me with about 292 cells per flask, just more than necessary. I do plan to ferment both beers rather cool, around 56F.
Thanks for any help! Cheers.
First off, I used YeastCalc.com to determine all of my numbers. I will be making a 1.052 Cal Common and a 1.050 Honey Blonde(ish), requiring 267 and 257 cells, respectively. My plan...
1. Initially make a single 3 liter starter in a 5 L, chill the wort and pitch the entire vial of yeast; place it on stir plate for about an hour or so; pour 1.5 L of the beer into the 2 L flask and leave both on stir plates until they finish fermenting.
2. Whenever they're done fermenting, probably 3 days or so, cold crash over night, decant, and pour another 1 L of fresh (chilled) wort into each flask, then let them both ferment out completely again, another 3 days I suppose.
3. Cold crash, decant, pitch into respective brews.
According to YeastCalc, this "should" leave me with about 292 cells per flask, just more than necessary. I do plan to ferment both beers rather cool, around 56F.
Thanks for any help! Cheers.