Hey!
i'm going to be brewing 10gal of Helles and 10gal of Schwarzbier soon. Technically i would need 8 packs of dry yeast to ferment this all out (2pks/5gal carboy).
Does anyone have experience with doing something along the lines of; pitch 1 pack, into a 2.5gal 1.040 beer as a giant starter. harvest that yeast, and split it up between my 8 carboys?
i have lots of grains and could make this "small beer" to build up my yeast, similar to a large starter? save myself 7 pks of dry yeast?
also for lager starters - is it important to ferment cool as well, or since you're decanting off the spent wort, you'd be getting rid of any potential off flavours from a warm fermentation?
thanks in advance!
i'm going to be brewing 10gal of Helles and 10gal of Schwarzbier soon. Technically i would need 8 packs of dry yeast to ferment this all out (2pks/5gal carboy).
Does anyone have experience with doing something along the lines of; pitch 1 pack, into a 2.5gal 1.040 beer as a giant starter. harvest that yeast, and split it up between my 8 carboys?
i have lots of grains and could make this "small beer" to build up my yeast, similar to a large starter? save myself 7 pks of dry yeast?
also for lager starters - is it important to ferment cool as well, or since you're decanting off the spent wort, you'd be getting rid of any potential off flavours from a warm fermentation?
thanks in advance!