Yeast Starter overflow

[boicutt]

Soooo... came home to this... seems I lost a lot of yeast. My brew day was tomorrow. What would you do? set this in the fridge now and decant slightly and pitch as usual or f the brew day and make a new starter for next week? First time using WLP001... brutal.

 

[boicutt]

I'm a big baby and I want to cry for all the dead yeast

 

[alby44]

Still looks like a good and viable starter to me with some good krausen going....proceed as planned, I'd say!!

 

[duboman]

Still looks like a good and viable starter to me with some good krausen going....proceed as planned, I'd say!!

+1

Leave it be and clean up the spilt wort/krausen on the plate. It's still fermenting so if you were to crash it now you would be cutting your starter short.

 

[boicutt]

cleaning it up right now and that stuff is so thick it feels like all my yeast came out...

 

[duboman]

cleaning it up right now and that stuff is so thick it feels like all my yeast came out...

Trust me, it didn't, maybe a couple million cells but you grew over several billion

 

[Brettomomyces]

You didn't lose as much as you think, that should still be a good starter. RDWHAHB

I highly reccomend getting some fermcap for your next starter, prevents this from happening and it's cheap cheap cheap

 

[k1ngl1ves]

That's a tiny overflow. No biggie. I've had messes 5 times that and still had a healthy starter.

Brew away!

 

[boicutt]

Thanks guys! This one calls for a blowoff... never seen a yeast so active so far! I've used it's dry sibling S-05, didnt seem to have this much krausen in the fermentor.

 

[Natdavis777]

I had that happen over the summer with a Weissbier starter. It still came out great. You should be fine. You might want to take apart the stir plate though and give it a clean. I didnt do this and the next time I got it out, it had a "notable" aroma

 

[boicutt]

Thanks for the tip! Already done! And thanks for the assurance!

 

[brewkinger]

Merely a flesh wound.... No major harm done.
Brew away and pitch it!


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[boicutt]

I want to report back, due to all the supportive comments to use this anyways!

First time WLP001 user, holy SHHHH****T this stuff is active. Most vigorous fermentation I've ever had. Crazy C02 production too. Never seen so many visible bubbles being produced.

Thanks again! Hoping to bottle/keg this IPA in two weeks!