To Smack Or Not To Smack?

[Cocko]

Well, thanks again AHB - I have learnt 2 things in these few short posts...

1. Put your smack packs on a table and pop - awesome! Cheers...

2. Spiesy has a girlish physique and lady boy style hands. [Well, I sort of knew that]

Cheers lads!

 

[bradsbrew]

Well, thanks again AHB - I have learnt 2 things in these few short posts...

1. Put your smack packs on a table and pop - awesome! Cheers...

2. Spiesy has a girlish physique and lady boy style hands. [Well, I sort of knew that]

Cheers lads!

Yes the table and pop does seem like a great alternative and probably a better method. But I like to set the challenge to myself of one hard slap and thats it. I will continue the one hard smack. Weak little yeasty just got slapped, who's the man yeasty, whos the man!

 

[Batz]

I smack and build up the starter enough for two 25lt brews (I brew 50lt at a time), I also have enough for 6 tubes of yeast for the yeast bank. Each of the tubes I then build up for two 25lt brews. I never go more than a second generation as I believe the yeast will not be the same, and hell 14 brews from one pack?

Easy as.

batz

 

[lukasfab]

I smack and build up the starter enough for two 25lt brews (I brew 50lt at a time), I also have enough for 6 tubes of yeast for the yeast bank. Each of the tubes I then build up for two 25lt brews. I never go more than a second generation as I believe the yeast will not be the same, and hell 14 brews from one pack?

Easy as.

batz

so do you do a 2.5 litre starter or something? pitch a litre into each batch and .5 litre into tubes?

 

[Spiesy]

Well, thanks again AHB - I have learnt 2 things in these few short posts...

1. Put your smack packs on a table and pop - awesome! Cheers...

2. Spiesy has a girlish physique and lady boy style hands. [Well, I sort of knew that]

Cheers lads!

gfc

 

[Spiesy]

You don't smack it, you pop it.

Meanwhile, I don't smack if I'm going to split.

But you don't smack it at all, right?

 

[Spiesy]

anyway... maybe the good folk at Wyeast would be better off putting the wise words of the AHB collective on their packs, rather than telling their customers to put it on a palm, and smack it. The table with applied pressure sounds like a much better option.

 

[Amber Fluid]

I smack then split into 4 tubes.
Grow 3 of the tubes as you need it and reuse a few times then grow the last tube and split that into 4 more tubes. Never run out of the strain then and always have the virgin at hand.

 

[Bubba Q]

Easiest way to pop it is to give it a light tap with the base of a saucepan / frying pan

 

[Florian]

Easiest way to pop it is to give it a light tap with the base of a saucepan / frying pan

Good way to make the whole pack burst, too :lol:

 

[stux]

But you don't smack it at all, right?

Right

I don't smack pop if I'm going to split

 

[carniebrew]

I smack then split into 4 tubes. Grow 3 of the tubes as you need it and reuse a few times then grow the last tube and split that into 4 more tubes. Never run out of the strain then and always have the virgin at hand.

So is everyone saying that a single Wyeast pack is enough to ferment 4 separate batches? Once split into 4, what's the trick to turning 1/4 of the Wyeast pack back into enough yeast to ferment 20 odd litres?

 

[bradsbrew]

There is a good wiki from Tony. But they are not available at the moment. This link should help.

http://blog.bracio.com/2012/09/splitting-liquid-yeast-packs.html

Edit: when it is back up here is a good article by Tony.

http://aussiehomebrewer.com/topic/61076-yeast-starter-and-splitting-yeast-packs/

 

[Spiesy]

Possibly a silly question, but in I go:

Do starters impart any flavours in the finished beer?

 

[Cocko]

I wouldn't imagine flavour but definitely an increased risk of infection IMO.

Each to their own..

 

[Spiesy]

sc

 

[Nick JD]

Possibly a silly question, but in I go:

Do starters impart any flavours in the finished beer?

Depends how much of the starter you chuck in. I pour off the "beer" and rouse the yeast with about 100ml of the "beer".

So, yes, but you won't taste the difference.

 

[Spiesy]

got ya, thanks

 

[Batz]

so do you do a 2.5 litre starter or something? pitch a litre into each batch and .5 litre into tubes?

That's near enough to it, yes. .

 

[lukasfab]

So full pack straight into 2.5l?

Thanks bats