Yeast starter color dark

[ringo8553]

Enclosed photo of English Ale yeast starter, and it seems like it is much darker than any other I have done. (I used light DME) I know the yeastbergs are normal for English, but how about the color?

 

[flars]

Darker color could be from a boil that was slightly longer and more vigorous than your other starter worts.

 

[Smellyglove]

Perfectly normal. You'll see it lightens when the yeast start to pupulate.

 

[sweetcell]

hypothesis: english yeast are highly flocculent - they drop like a rock. beer looks lighter when yeast (which is white) is in suspension. so, with no yeast in suspension, your starter looks darker than usual.

 

[Smellyglove]

Didn't get info about if this is stir-plated or not. My assumption was that this is close to when you pitched the yeast. Don't worry. You're not Edvard Munch

 

[ASantiago]

I always do a yeast starter and always use the same recipe for a 1000 ml volume using light DME. One of the two flasks I have is exactly the same as the one in the picture.

I get the differences in color too. In fact, I just did two equal starters, both using WLP001 from unopened vials, DME from the same bag, and water from the same filtered water bottle for a 10 gallon batch and they came out in different shades! It may be due to boiling one longer than the other (I imagine at the low volume level even a little bit of extra heat means a lot). It could also be how heat is distributed/handled differently by each of my flasks.

Funny thing is, I don't recall noting the color difference before.

 

[ringo8553]

Thank you..the boil was only about 5 min
if I go away for a week now, and I refrigerate, will I stop all the action?

 

[ringo8553]

Yes, a fellow Norwegian!

 

[ASantiago]

Thank you..the boil was only about 5 min
if I go away for a week now, and I refrigerate, will I stop all the action?

I boil mine for 10 minutes.

Yes, you will stop the action. The temperature drop will cause the yeast to go dormant.

 

[Smellyglove]

Yes, a fellow Norwegian!

How did you tell? I can't see any info of that kind.