Yeast starter from carboy?

[Shinglejohn]

My local homebrew shop was out of the particular yeast i was looking for and wont be getting it in till after i had planned on brewing. Since i am brewing my house ale i had a batch ready for bottling already, so i bottled it and then stirred up the bottom of the carboy and syphoned it off into a yeast starter assuming i could cultivate the yeast from this.

Right?

 

[Jolly McStanson]

You can dump the fresh wort right on top of the yeast at the bottom of the carboy. A lot of guys do that. So you rack off the finished beer, then refill the carboy with sweet wort. You dont need to take any yeast out.

 

[wedward]

what about the traub (SP?) and other extras in there? Does that adversely affect the new wort?
So you adjust for that somehow in the boil?

 

[Shinglejohn]

so... yes? This will work?

I already made a starter out of it.

 

[Nurmey]

No need to do anything different with the boil or anything else. Rack the first beer out and pour the new wort in. Give it a shake, hook up a blow off (you'll need it) and let it go to town.

 

[steelerguy]

so... yes? This will work?

I already made a starter out of it.

I would recommend washing it to remove the trub. There are good instruction on how to do it here and it is really easy.

I would also use the pitching calculator at mrmalty.com and pitch the correct amount rather than just tossing it all in there.