Starter needed for White Labs 007?

bottlebomber · Dec 28, 2011

cuse88 said:
On a side note, I don't think I got enough DME.

Will 2oz be enough for a 2L Starter?

No it wouldn't, but you could do a liter with that. 007 is pretty wicked stuff. It would be sufficient for 95% of beers, I don't care what mrmalty says

cuse88 · Dec 28, 2011

bottlebomber said:
No it wouldn't, but you could do a liter with that. 007 is pretty wicked stuff. It would be sufficient for 95% of beers, I don't care what mrmalty says

So I would be good with simply a liter culture? The brew store i 45+ mins away and someone I knew picked up an order I placed to the store and unfortunately what I ordered wasn't enough for a 2L.

So if that amount of DME will work then all is good.

bottlebomber · Dec 28, 2011

Its a fine amount. If you tried to stretch 60 grams of DME into 2 liters it would work out to be 1.012 or something, too weak. What are you brewing?

cuse88 · Dec 28, 2011

bottlebomber said:
Its a fine amount. If you tried to stretch 60 grams of DME into 2 liters it would work out to be 1.012 or something, too weak. What are you brewing?

The Coconut Porter kit (Extract) from AHS.

bottlebomber · Dec 28, 2011

cuse88 said:
The Coconut Porter kit (Extract) from AHS.

Oh yeah, no problem at all. If you knew you had good yeast you could get by with no starter at all, but one liter is more than enough for that beer.

EDIT:I if you were in this situation in the future and were doing a big beer and really needed the extra punch, it would be worth it to borrow some fermentables from the kit to make sure you had ample yeast

MrManifesto · Dec 28, 2011

i use 1/10 the grams of DME as i do ml of fluid.

like, i have a starter cooling down right now (also for 007, weirdly enough). i used 1200ml of water and 120 grams of DME, if that makes sense.