Yeast Starter Epic fail

[murppie]

Just thought I would brighten everyone's morning with a story of fail from last night/this morning. I'm doing an Irish Red for St. Patty's Day, and so I wanted to do a starter last night. So I attempt to do it in the flask (as I had done before) and it resulted in a HUGE boil over. Had to stop and clean my kitchen after it, then left for a party. So I woke up early this morning to retry, ended up having some sort of contamination as was found out by some black/purplish stuff coming up with the foam when the DME was boiling. So I tossed it and tried again....SAME RESULT. This was after I scrubbed/cleaned/sanitized/recleaned/resanitized. Frustration after using an entire pound of DME for it.

Luckily, I redid it just now and seemed to have success! Joy!

 

[brewinchef_fairfax]

You do realize St Pat's is a week from now right?

 

[RM-MN]

You do realize St Pat's is a week from now right?

Maybe he's doing a barleywine and wants to age it for a year. Sounds good to me.

 

[murppie]

Its an Irish Red. Primary should be done Friday. Force carb/shake Saturday, drink sunday.

 

[hunter_le five]

That's going to be a very young beer... let us know how it tastes.

 

[JohnnyO]

Dude, just buy some beer. That is going to be awfully young.