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Hello AHB'ers!
Recently I have been making practice yeast starters (never done it before, saved some 514 yeast from a recent brew) and its easy peasy. Getting ready for a killer lager (pitching @ 11deg) and I want to get my yeast starting skills spot on. However I am starting to churn thru my dry malt pretty quickly. Recently a friend gave me a coopers draught kit that is 12months+ out of date. I am NOT going to brew it, chucking it out is the next step, but then I got to thinking.....
Can I use the malt from the coopers kit to make yeast starters? This "should be" a match made in heaven, i.e the yeast gets 'acclimatised' to the right malt etc. However its 12months+ outta date? Its just for making starters...so should be fine?? thoughts?
How many grams of LME for a 1L starter? I use 100g of LDME, so I am thinking 100G of LME is the go?
Also,
Where should I store the malt (i.e. old coopers kit)?
1. In the coopers tin, in the fridge? Covered in glad wrap? (i always thought storing things in tins in the fridge was bad, no idea why)
2. Open the tin, pour it all into a large glass jar (sanitised etc), with a lid (eg ex-gerkin jar, their huge, 1-2L)
3. How about seperating into 100g lots and freezing them?? 100g should be right for a 1L starter???
4. How about ice cube trays? Make malt ice cubes, then store them in an airtight container?? (anyone done this?)
I am thinking options 2 & 4 are looking likely, happy to freeze it, if its better, but if the fridge is fine then option 2 is likely. I wonder how long it would keep in the fridge like that, just to be used for starters only.
Any feedback or advice is greatly appreciated...thanks guys!
EDIT: I did try to find the answer before asking these questions, but I couldnt really get the bang-on answer.
Rendo
Recently I have been making practice yeast starters (never done it before, saved some 514 yeast from a recent brew) and its easy peasy. Getting ready for a killer lager (pitching @ 11deg) and I want to get my yeast starting skills spot on. However I am starting to churn thru my dry malt pretty quickly. Recently a friend gave me a coopers draught kit that is 12months+ out of date. I am NOT going to brew it, chucking it out is the next step, but then I got to thinking.....
Can I use the malt from the coopers kit to make yeast starters? This "should be" a match made in heaven, i.e the yeast gets 'acclimatised' to the right malt etc. However its 12months+ outta date? Its just for making starters...so should be fine?? thoughts?
How many grams of LME for a 1L starter? I use 100g of LDME, so I am thinking 100G of LME is the go?
Also,
Where should I store the malt (i.e. old coopers kit)?
1. In the coopers tin, in the fridge? Covered in glad wrap? (i always thought storing things in tins in the fridge was bad, no idea why)
2. Open the tin, pour it all into a large glass jar (sanitised etc), with a lid (eg ex-gerkin jar, their huge, 1-2L)
3. How about seperating into 100g lots and freezing them?? 100g should be right for a 1L starter???
4. How about ice cube trays? Make malt ice cubes, then store them in an airtight container?? (anyone done this?)
I am thinking options 2 & 4 are looking likely, happy to freeze it, if its better, but if the fridge is fine then option 2 is likely. I wonder how long it would keep in the fridge like that, just to be used for starters only.
Any feedback or advice is greatly appreciated...thanks guys!
EDIT: I did try to find the answer before asking these questions, but I couldnt really get the bang-on answer.
Rendo