Ok here is my question, say I brew up a 5 gallon batch of my favorite home brew, I add a pack of Wyeast (as designed for 5gal pitch), and then 24-48hr later I add a fresh 5gal of appropriate temperature wort to the fermenting beer. Will this be an under pitched 10Gal, or is there enough growth time? Has anyone done this? What results should I expect?
Underpitching or Large Starter?
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samc
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I'd wait for the first batch to ferment out, rack to secondary and then pitch the new beer.
Its the same beer, my system really only handles 5gal batches well, and trying to do this to get a ten gallon batch, and wondering what the effects would be.
I guess the question isn't so much "should I do X" as "what happens when I do X"
I guess the question isn't so much "should I do X" as "what happens when I do X"
. I believe that idea is brought up in the book "Yeast" by White and Zainasheff. You will get a couple cell divisions before the addition so the yeast will be happy.
