Hi,
First time using liquid yeast. I did a starter and the plan was to overgrow the starter so that i can save some for the future. Calculator told me that I need approximately 184 billion cells for the 20l batch (5.3 gallons), and 100 billion cells for future use. I used stir plate and everything went smoothly. I was supposed to split the starter to one 1l mason jar (0.26 gal) and one 0.5l (0.13 gal) mason jar. I swirled the erlenmeyer a bit and then filled the mason jars. I filled the larger container first and the smaller last. Lot of the trub seemed to go on the second mason jar. Apparently I did not mix the starter well enough so it wasn't homogenous.
Here's the result:
I'm brewing tomorrow and I'm wondering what i should do. If you look at the photos, it seems that the smaller jar has slightly more of the sediment (white sediment is yeast? the darker one is trub?). It seems as if I have more yeast on the smaller mason jar. Should I just pitch the smaller one and save the larger one for future? Or should I scoop some yeast from the smaller jar when pitching? Any ideas? Will I hava good enough pitch rate if pitching the larger one and saving the smaller? Im doing a 1.046 OG ESB and was targeting a pitching rate of 0.75 million cells/milliliter/plato.
First time using liquid yeast. I did a starter and the plan was to overgrow the starter so that i can save some for the future. Calculator told me that I need approximately 184 billion cells for the 20l batch (5.3 gallons), and 100 billion cells for future use. I used stir plate and everything went smoothly. I was supposed to split the starter to one 1l mason jar (0.26 gal) and one 0.5l (0.13 gal) mason jar. I swirled the erlenmeyer a bit and then filled the mason jars. I filled the larger container first and the smaller last. Lot of the trub seemed to go on the second mason jar. Apparently I did not mix the starter well enough so it wasn't homogenous.
Here's the result:
I'm brewing tomorrow and I'm wondering what i should do. If you look at the photos, it seems that the smaller jar has slightly more of the sediment (white sediment is yeast? the darker one is trub?). It seems as if I have more yeast on the smaller mason jar. Should I just pitch the smaller one and save the larger one for future? Or should I scoop some yeast from the smaller jar when pitching? Any ideas? Will I hava good enough pitch rate if pitching the larger one and saving the smaller? Im doing a 1.046 OG ESB and was targeting a pitching rate of 0.75 million cells/milliliter/plato.