luckybeagle
Making sales and brewing ales.
I've got roughly 20 ounces of unwashed, thick slurry that I harvested from a batch of Belgian Blond Ale that I brewed back in February of this year. The strain is Wyeast 1388. I want to brew another Belgian Blond (Affligem clone) and am trying to decide if I should make a 1.5L starter with about 1/3 cup of slurry, or if I should make assumptions about its viability and pitch it straight. The slurry looks and smells fine and fresh--no mold or dead yeast/wet cat food smell)
If I pitched it straight, I would assume it has maybe 0.5 Billion cells per liter and would add the whole thing to 5 gallons of 1.063 OG wort.
If I made a starter, I'd pitch the 1.5L starter and assume it had 250 billion cells (0.78 cells/ml/plato, standard ale pitch rate).
What would be the best approach to increase the odds that I don't underpitch or grossly overpitch?
If I pitched it straight, I would assume it has maybe 0.5 Billion cells per liter and would add the whole thing to 5 gallons of 1.063 OG wort.
If I made a starter, I'd pitch the 1.5L starter and assume it had 250 billion cells (0.78 cells/ml/plato, standard ale pitch rate).
What would be the best approach to increase the odds that I don't underpitch or grossly overpitch?