mika
Lupulin Threshold Shift Victim
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Haven't had a lot of joy with the wYeast Kolsch strain and no-one over here carries White Labs, so thought I'd give a ProCulture sample a go.
Unfortunately the HB store I chose only had really old stock of the strain I wanted (PRO-107). Not sure whether it was a Born on Date or Use Before date, but was marked as December last year, which I didn't think was really that bad as I've started up wYeast packs from the Bargain bin and they've usually worked fine.
To add to that, looking thru the outside of the vial the yeast at the bottom still looked kinda creamy.
So shake it up, dump it into the starter wort and notice it's now quite dark and left behind in the vial is a fair bit of black junk which I presume to be dead yeast cells.... but I'm not sure.
Anyone else been down this path ?
Am I wasting my time ?
Is there anything I should do when/if the starter fires up ? I've only started with 1L and was then going to step up to 5L. Don't want to go thu all the hassle only to end up with yeast that won't play nice, or an infection.
Unfortunately the HB store I chose only had really old stock of the strain I wanted (PRO-107). Not sure whether it was a Born on Date or Use Before date, but was marked as December last year, which I didn't think was really that bad as I've started up wYeast packs from the Bargain bin and they've usually worked fine.
To add to that, looking thru the outside of the vial the yeast at the bottom still looked kinda creamy.
So shake it up, dump it into the starter wort and notice it's now quite dark and left behind in the vial is a fair bit of black junk which I presume to be dead yeast cells.... but I'm not sure.
Anyone else been down this path ?
Am I wasting my time ?
Is there anything I should do when/if the starter fires up ? I've only started with 1L and was then going to step up to 5L. Don't want to go thu all the hassle only to end up with yeast that won't play nice, or an infection.