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Chilling worth with ice?
Marv. wrote:
Since I use a 1/2 to 3/4 gal starter culture
Marv, I just want to be sure, are you using a starter or a culture? If you are culturing yeast, you are usually keeping it on a slant and pulling off a couple of cells, which you step up into a starter. Starter being a small amount of wort used to multiple the number of yeast cells. I guess I'm wondering if you are making a starter or if you're just rehydrating the yeast (using water, not wort).
DT
I'm using a starter.
The day before I brew, I make a mini wort, around half to three quarters of a gallon.
I also rehydrate the yeast( if using dry yeast) while making the starter wort.
This last batch I used WLyeast, so I didn't have to rehydrate, but I did make the starter and pitched the yeast to it the day before brewing.
It took right off.
So I guess it's called a yeast starter culture? AM I saying that right?
I'm giving the yeast a day to grow in a mini wort.
This is the rehydrated yeast after a little of the wort has been added to it.
Pitching it to the mini wort.
Starter culture, if I'm ot say this wrong, please let me know , lol.
Starter culture.
I fill my sink half full of cold water and top it off with ice. This usually puts it level with the place my wort reaches in my brewpot.
I put my covered brew pot in the sink and sprinkle rock salt on the ice. The salt reacts with the ice and cools more quickly than with plain ice or cold water. I find I can get an extract boil (about 2-3 gallons) cooled down very quickly (about 15-25 minutes).
You just have to be careful to keep an eye on the temp of the wort... you don't want it freezing and killing your yeast. I know that sounds insane at first, but if you consider that ice and rock salt makes ice-cream then you'll understand. I rock the pot occasionally to mix the really cool edges with the hot center part and it works great...
If you sprinkle the rock salt around the edges and keep the pot covered, you dont have to worry about getting salt in your beer!
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