I've been brewing with a good friend who was staying with us for a while. Recently he moved out (thank god says my wife) but now sharing the beer is more difficult. He's been coming over and leaving with full growlers. I hate to admit this because homebrew should be shared but when he leaves with one gallon of beer my wife and I are a little sad. We shouldn't be of course since he's actually helping to pay for the ingredients.
So we're starting to brew enough beer now to fill a 6.5 gal. carboy (5.5 gal. for my 5 gal. corneys) and a 3 gal. carboy (for his soon to be purchased 2.5 gal. keg).
Anyway, we've been preparing starters on a stir plate made from parts scavenged from an old computer he took when his wife kicked him out The first time we brewed this volume we used the starter for the larger carboy and pitched a second vial into the smaller carboy. Should we continue in the fashion or could we step up a single vial large enough to pour 1/3 into the 3 gal. and 2/3 into the larger carboy.
Thanks,
Dean
So we're starting to brew enough beer now to fill a 6.5 gal. carboy (5.5 gal. for my 5 gal. corneys) and a 3 gal. carboy (for his soon to be purchased 2.5 gal. keg).
Anyway, we've been preparing starters on a stir plate made from parts scavenged from an old computer he took when his wife kicked him out The first time we brewed this volume we used the starter for the larger carboy and pitched a second vial into the smaller carboy. Should we continue in the fashion or could we step up a single vial large enough to pour 1/3 into the 3 gal. and 2/3 into the larger carboy.
Thanks,
Dean