Beer-Dammit
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Ok - the backdrop:
I'm brewing an Allagash Belgian Tripel clone with a pretty simple grain bill but a pretty high gravity: 1080+ OG probably. Then I want to age it in a 5 gallon oak barrel I bought recently just for this brew. With a brew that big I naturally do a yeast starter with WLP500 to get to my target cell count at pitching. I checked on it today and I noticed that I must have burned the DME when I made the starter on the stove. I then grew my yeast on top of that and now I'm 1 day away from brew day (Which I technically could postpone but don't want to really.)
So my question is...assuming this is burnt DME on the bottom of my starter flask and not an infection of some kind could I pitch it? Would the burnt DME add any flavors to the yeast and therefore perhaps the finished brew? I do also have some S-33 yeast I keep in the fridge for just such occasions but I really like the WLP500.
I'm brewing an Allagash Belgian Tripel clone with a pretty simple grain bill but a pretty high gravity: 1080+ OG probably. Then I want to age it in a 5 gallon oak barrel I bought recently just for this brew. With a brew that big I naturally do a yeast starter with WLP500 to get to my target cell count at pitching. I checked on it today and I noticed that I must have burned the DME when I made the starter on the stove. I then grew my yeast on top of that and now I'm 1 day away from brew day (Which I technically could postpone but don't want to really.)
So my question is...assuming this is burnt DME on the bottom of my starter flask and not an infection of some kind could I pitch it? Would the burnt DME add any flavors to the yeast and therefore perhaps the finished brew? I do also have some S-33 yeast I keep in the fridge for just such occasions but I really like the WLP500.