I made a starter last night using white labs California ale yeast.
I used a 2 liter ocean spray container and tin foil.
I did not have DME only had LME so I went to papazians information 1 gram per 10 ml of extract I may have put like 210 grams or so of LME boiled for 15 min added a few hop pellets and added the boiling wort after to the bottle to sanitize it then cooled and kept refrigerated.
I had it in the fridge for like a week then my mom came over and poured a glass of it thought it was cider or something.
I then figured it was contaminated so I poured it into the pot and raised them temp to 170 degrees to disinfect it and poured back into my ocean spray container then cooled to pitching temp and pitched my Yeast.
I have never worked with whitelabs before I have been a Wyeast guy and have never had any issues. Anyways its been sitting for about 24 hours now and I dont see any activity. I have shake'd it a lot and still nothing.
There does seem to be some sediment on the bottom but no krousen forming on the top.
Does White labs always take this long ?
Update I believe that it has started im not 100% sure because I do not have an air lock on it but it does seem to have alot of sediment I shook it a few more times just to get everything moving again I want to brew tomorrow I was wondering if I should decant some of the liquid off and pour the yeasties in or just dump the whole 2 lites into my brew. I usually only make 1 liter starters so im not sure if throwing that much would effect taste. Im going to make JZ's cream ale.
I used a 2 liter ocean spray container and tin foil.
I did not have DME only had LME so I went to papazians information 1 gram per 10 ml of extract I may have put like 210 grams or so of LME boiled for 15 min added a few hop pellets and added the boiling wort after to the bottle to sanitize it then cooled and kept refrigerated.
I had it in the fridge for like a week then my mom came over and poured a glass of it thought it was cider or something.
I then figured it was contaminated so I poured it into the pot and raised them temp to 170 degrees to disinfect it and poured back into my ocean spray container then cooled to pitching temp and pitched my Yeast.
I have never worked with whitelabs before I have been a Wyeast guy and have never had any issues. Anyways its been sitting for about 24 hours now and I dont see any activity. I have shake'd it a lot and still nothing.
There does seem to be some sediment on the bottom but no krousen forming on the top.
Does White labs always take this long ?
Update I believe that it has started im not 100% sure because I do not have an air lock on it but it does seem to have alot of sediment I shook it a few more times just to get everything moving again I want to brew tomorrow I was wondering if I should decant some of the liquid off and pour the yeasties in or just dump the whole 2 lites into my brew. I usually only make 1 liter starters so im not sure if throwing that much would effect taste. Im going to make JZ's cream ale.
