chipmunk
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I’ve never really understood why you need to step up when making starters. I know in Chris White’s book “yeast” he talked about limited growth rates with low inoculation rates, but Kai Troester and some others pointed out that those graphs were based on non-agitated starters where there may have been limited oxygen. So... assuming you provide enough oxygen, why can’t you make up a starter from extreme low inoculation rates? Does it have anything to do with genetic drift from too many generations?