Pitching a 4L starter

[MikeSteele]

I plan on brewing a pretty high gravity barley wine pretty soon (OG 1.115) and am trying to plan out the yeast pitch.

Since I plan on making a larger starter (4 liters) using WLP090 San Diego Super, I am considering letting the starter go to work in my fermenter, account for the volume and DME in that starter with my recipe, and just dump the cooled wort right onto it.

Does anyone see an issue with this? Am I going to get off flavors as a result of incorporating starter wort?

 

[Jwood]

woah, i would definitely chill and decant a 4L starter before pitching.

get it down to 5% MAX of your batch size.

 

[drhookmec]

The only issue i see with this is
when you add the cooled wort to a presently fermenting starter you could possible oxygenate the existing fermenting starter.
Witch could cause off favors.

But i would go for it and see what happens.