"Ironic is the fact that the more interested I get in beer, the less I drink of it. In my younger days I drank a lot, but was not ready to learn about good and great beer."
Are you a new reader, then The perfect starter
It seems that I brew too seldomly. I usually can not remember how to make the starter, so I have to think about it. Here is one way of making one, I can think of. These instructions are for liquid yeast. If the yeast is dried, somply add "Re-hydrate in a cup of pre-boiled water at 25deg C for a couple of minutes" as the second action in the below list
- Set the Whitelabs tube at room temperature and let it slowly warm up over 2 hours or so.
- While the tube is warming up, brew your batch of starter with dried malt extract, DME. 100 grams DME to 1 liter of water and a little bit of hops.
- Boil the starter for 10-15 minutes in a 2 liter Erlenmeyer Flask then cover and cool to 25-30deg C.
- Sanitize the outside of the tube of yeast.
- Pour contents into your Erlenmeyer Flask and cover with airlock and stopper.
- When the starter has a visible head of foam, you are ready to pitch - approximately 4 to 6 hours later. Older yeast will take longer.
- You may also brew a larger amount of starter at this point and divide your original starter among more containers for additional batches of starter.
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