Topic: starter

Yeast Starter

Thanks again to those responsible for this valuable contribution to "craft brewing" knowledge. My question might have obvious answers for some readers but here goes anyway. When making a...

Starters & Cell Counts

I'll start by saying thanks very much for the FOY opportunity. Recently I saw a note that a 2L starter made using a "vial" of yeast containing 30-60 billion cells would grow to 240...

Fermcap Anti-foam

Some of us (or perhaps only I) are attempting to culture our yeast starters in a respiratory state (with high oxygen and low glucose concentrations). In my experience, I cannot deliver very much air...

Commercial Starters

When pitchable quantities of "liquid" yeast are provided to a commercial microbrewery by a commercial yeast producer, in what stage of the life of the yeast is the yeast supplied? It is my...

Cell Counts Within a Starter

As others have mentioned, thank you very much for the opportunity... My question is on yeast cell counts within a starter. Assuming one began with a 1L of 1.040 starter wort, and 50 ml of yeast...

Aeration and Starter Versus Wort

Can you please comment on the strategy of trying to aerate/oxygenate the yeast while they are in a STARTER rather than aerating the wort itself. (Please let me abuse the language and science a bit...

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