zarniwoop
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Hi All,
OK I know this has probably been covered elsewhere but it's getting late in the day and I've already had to deal with a dodgy chilling cube failing on me after the hot wort went in so I'm just going to ask.
Up to now I've just been pitching Wyeast 125ml activator packs directly into the wort and so far so good. However I've beeen reading a bit and I'm looking into starters but the advice seems to be conflicting.
The Wyeast website states that for up to 1.060 OG the pitching rate is 6 million cells /ml. However Mr Malty states that it's 11.25 million/ml (at 1.060). So I have 23L irish red ale cooling with an OG of 1.056 so according to Wyeast I should pitch 138 billion cells but according to Mr Malty I should pitch 242 billion cells (0.75million cells x 23,000ml x 14 degrees plato). So why the big difference?
Going by Wyeast I'm only just over the 100 billion they state on the activator packet so I don't even know if I'd bother making a starter?
However going by Mr Malty I have to make one.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
Zarniwoop
OK I know this has probably been covered elsewhere but it's getting late in the day and I've already had to deal with a dodgy chilling cube failing on me after the hot wort went in so I'm just going to ask.
Up to now I've just been pitching Wyeast 125ml activator packs directly into the wort and so far so good. However I've beeen reading a bit and I'm looking into starters but the advice seems to be conflicting.
The Wyeast website states that for up to 1.060 OG the pitching rate is 6 million cells /ml. However Mr Malty states that it's 11.25 million/ml (at 1.060). So I have 23L irish red ale cooling with an OG of 1.056 so according to Wyeast I should pitch 138 billion cells but according to Mr Malty I should pitch 242 billion cells (0.75million cells x 23,000ml x 14 degrees plato). So why the big difference?
Going by Wyeast I'm only just over the 100 billion they state on the activator packet so I don't even know if I'd bother making a starter?
However going by Mr Malty I have to make one.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks
Zarniwoop