Germelli1
Well-Known Member
So I brought this up in another thread, but I wanted to ask the community here for thoughts on this.
One time my starter failed to take off. The wort had been sitting in the fermenter for 2 days with no yeast when I decided to make a new starter. For extra measure to ensure sterile wort, I crushed up 5 camden tablets and added them to the wort. I let it sit for another 30-ish hours to make sure the camden did its job and had stopped being effective, then pitched the new starter.
It helped me through a less than ideal situation...ended up working great and the end result was awesome beer. So I am wondering if this has and place in no chill brewing, or just those who can't pitch yeast immediately for whatever reason.
It got me to thinking...would it be a good insurance for no chillers to add 1 camden tab per gallon to the beer in the cubes or would this be a waste. Part of me feels like if something was going to get in the wort before pitching time, camden wouldn't do much since it is already sterile going into the cube, but if there is any merit to this it could be helpful to a lot of brewers!
What are your thoughts?
One time my starter failed to take off. The wort had been sitting in the fermenter for 2 days with no yeast when I decided to make a new starter. For extra measure to ensure sterile wort, I crushed up 5 camden tablets and added them to the wort. I let it sit for another 30-ish hours to make sure the camden did its job and had stopped being effective, then pitched the new starter.
It helped me through a less than ideal situation...ended up working great and the end result was awesome beer. So I am wondering if this has and place in no chill brewing, or just those who can't pitch yeast immediately for whatever reason.
It got me to thinking...would it be a good insurance for no chillers to add 1 camden tab per gallon to the beer in the cubes or would this be a waste. Part of me feels like if something was going to get in the wort before pitching time, camden wouldn't do much since it is already sterile going into the cube, but if there is any merit to this it could be helpful to a lot of brewers!
What are your thoughts?