Using 6 month old yeast starter question using WLP080

[jturman35]

I’m doing a starter for 1.070 Rosemary Pale Ale I was planning on brewing New Year’s Day. Picked up my grains and yeast yesterday and LHBS only had WLP080 which is a cream ale yeast. He gave me $2 off because it’s recommend by date was June. Yeast is 6!months old.

Got home and whipped up a starter. I believe BS calculated this yeast had a viability of 45% due to the age. Should I let this go for 48hrs on the stir plate rather than 24?

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[helibrewer]

What size starter? Can you step it up? I would try to pitch your resulting starter at high krausen

 

[jturman35]

BS starter calculator gave me 1.46l using 4.93 oz DME. How do I know if I should make a step up starter?

 

[gfarantes]

Use a yeast calculator.
http://www.brewunited.com/yeast_calculator.php

 

[jturman35]

I ended up adding another starter of about a liter to bring this up to 2 liters. I would have liked to crashed and decanted but I was wanting to brew Tuesday.


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[jturman35]

Anyone see an issue with this?

 

[Dog House Brew]

I don’t see an issue

 

[jturman35]

I have never seen one look quite like this? Does this look normal? This is 9 hours after pitching.
Looks like a cold break.