Starter with current wort

[CheaperPlease]

I want to make a yeast started for this beer
but i have no DME, Since i dont have a wort
chiller it will be hours till i can add my yeast,
maybe even over night, could i quickly chill
some of the wort from this beer and begin a
starter in it before i added it to the beer
itself?

 

[CheaperPlease]

Im using White Labs yeast BTW. California Ale.
Their website says only 4-6 hours for a starter.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

You could certainly do that and it wouldn't hurt anything. Just be very, very sanitary.

 

[CheaperPlease]

Always, I did Microbiology before this. Mycology to be specific. So i know good conditions.

 

[CheaperPlease]

I did it by the way, worked out fine and
had my ale bubbling away in 4 hours.
Hell of an improvement over my Tripel
not starting for about 24hr.

By the way, Fuquay? is that pronounced
like Bouquet with an F?

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

By the way, Fuquay? is that pronounced
like Bouquet with an F?

No, it's more like few-quay (rhymes with way). There are actually many local imaginative ways to pronounce it, especially when combined with imaginitive ways of pronouncing Varina.

 

[budbo]

white labs vials are designed to pitch 5 gallons without a starter

 

[CheaperPlease]

True, but their website says it won't hurt to make a starter, it pisses me off when my ferment dosnt start in about 5 hours so i gotta have something to speed it up. Also i cant aerate well in a 5 gal carboy so I thought if the yeast went through the oxygen building time in a enviroment that was oxygen rich, it would help.

I ask about the Fuquay thing because my last name is Fuqua, I pronounce it the same way you do, i thought the bouquet thing would work better because thats the way most people say it. The y makes it seem a little altered, looks out of place. i heard the orignal spelling of my last name was Fouquet. pronounced in french, my haritage, would sound like Few-quay or Fuqua.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

white labs vials are designed to pitch 5 gallons without a starter

That's what they advertise, but even the XL Wyeast packs are underpitching 5g of wort based on what most literature recommends as 1 million cells / ml wort / degree plato. Here's a pretty nifty calculator which shows how many smack packs or vials would be required for a given volume at a given SG:
http://www.mrmalty.com/pitching.php#F