I'm going to brew saturday morning and I have a question on either stepping or not stepping a starter. I searched on here, but couldn't quite find what I was looking for. I have a 2L and 5L beakers, and have stepped starters several times, but didn't get my yeast until today. I'm going to be using 1 smack pack and my pitch calc says I need about 395B cells. I can achieve this by a 4.25L starter or step it with two, 2L starters. In the essence of time, I would just like to do the 4.25L; however, I'm not sure if this would have any detrimental impacts or not....I understand that they say one smack pack is good for 5 gallsons..yada yada yada, but I just wanted to see if anyone had any experience with what I want to do.
Step or not?
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I would just make the large starte but use a gravity of say perhaps 1.020-1.030 so you don't stress out an already less viable yeast strain.
ImO it's far better than completely under pitching the beer
ImO it's far better than completely under pitching the beer
