Yeast Starter Fiasco

[FlapjackAM]

So I haven't brewed in over a year and today is yeast starter day for the ESB I'm making. If today is indicative of brew day though I'm in for a rough one. Lost half a liter to a boil over and had to hammer my long since used DME back into powder and ended up with an OG in the 1.06 range. And before I could finish I had to run to a short function. Question: am I good to boil some more water and dilute before I pitch when I get home or is that too long to sit there? I covered it with sanitized foil. I'd hate to waste it but I don't want to doom my beer. I'm out of DME though so it's this or just pitch the wyeast as is this time. Thoughts?

 

[sikkingj]

Dilute with water, you have no worries!

Let us know how the ESB works out...

 

[FlapjackAM]

So I'm good even though it will have sat there about an hour or so without yeast?

 

[flars]

As long as your sanitation was good no problem. Wort will sit without yeast for over a day in the fermentor, without yeast, using the no chill method. Is not a problem as long as sanitation is good..

 

[FlapjackAM]

Everything was submerged in starsan prior to use so it should be good. I feel better. Thanks everyone.

 

[Brew_G]

Everything was submerged in starsan prior to use so it should be good. I feel better. Thanks everyone.

Cool. And if you're still just that little bit worried, you can always dilute and then re-boil to give yourself a little peace of mind.

 

[FlapjackAM]

Cool. And if you're still just that little bit worried, you can always dilute and then re-boil to give yourself a little peace of mind.

I should have done that, didn't think of it. But I'm a paranoid person; I'm sure it's fine. Brought it down to 1.044 and pitched it just now. Re-sanitized all my tools of course. Here's hoping. Starsan's contact time is a minute right? It was longer than that in reality anyway just curious.