Old wlp400 starter

[Brewer Gerard]

So i made starter that i never got round to using. I put a cap on it and left it in the fridge and i guess 8 weeks may have passed in the mean time. I'm looking to do that brew now and was wondering could i build another starer off that yeast cake.

Anybody aware of potential downsides here?

 

[zzARzz]

I've saved bits of the yeast cakes in some of the starter wort from ones I've made and stored them in the fridge with good results. You'll likely need to do a stepped starter after decanting the old wort off of the cake. There's a good how-to video/article from BillyBrew here with the particulars of going about it. A dollar's worth extract isn't too much risk to see if it's still viable.