my starter is sitting in the fridge ready to be decanted so I can step-up one more time before I pitch this weekend. after pouring off the unwanted liquid should I let the yeast slurry warm up to room temp b4 I add my next batch of starter wort?
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Probably not a bad idea. At least achieve some bit of equilibrium. That's what I tend to do.
slarkin712
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Yes, that's the thing to do.
usually folks cold crash and decant AFTER they've competed all their feedings and have achieved the desired cell count. When you're cold crashing your putting the yeast to sleep....so yes you need to warm it up before you feed it again. But if you choose to cold crah before each feeding you're really dragging out the entire process. If you're doig 3-4 feedings that's a lot of time wasted to cooling/warming back up.
In the future just cold crash once at the end of the process.
In the future just cold crash once at the end of the process.
