Hi. I’m going to be brewing a big lager and was wondering how big a starter can be made in a 5 liter flask. I’ll be using a stir plate and fermcap. 4 liters should be doable can you actually do a 5 liter in 5 liters?
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5 liter flask capability.
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I always oxygenate my starters. If your headspace is small in relation to the volume, I'd consider doing that.
The timing is not going to be right for doing stepped starters. It’s my wife’s beer and we started the planning a bit late.
I will be doing about 60 seconds of oxygen with a wand.
This^ is the best thing to do. I do 4 minutes at
After oxygenating, let it sit for a few hours before starting the stirrer or shaker so you don't blow the O2 out too soon.
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I just put it on the stir plate after oxygenating. I figure that the headspace, by that time, is mostly pure oxygen and the flask mouth is covered with foil, and so there shouldn't be too much outgassing from the wort to the headspace.
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I've fit a little over 5 liters in my 5 liter flask when using lager yeast. I don't make it that big when using ale yeast though.
Roughly 5.5 L of 2565 in a 5L flask. 3 drops of Fermcap = zero drama...
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