stiray
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I am using M31 for a year, first as a substitute for yeast included with kits and the last time as my first full grain batch.
Typically I have added 2 packs (10g, 50 billion cells) for 30 liters batch while on my first full grain I have normally screwed it up and got malt at around 1.090 (and a few other things I wasnt aware of, like leaving hops in beer for whole night). The result was quite surprising, at the end of fermentation it got to around 1.008, getting 11% of alcohol and it was quite sweet with hop hitting at the end.
I wanted to experiment a little bit with this weekend brewing and I would like to try to make a starter.
Now I am having a bit of a problem of how many bags to use for starter as even with the 2 dry yeast bags it is quite violent and typically most of fermentation was done in first few days. I have used the calculators but got me nowhere, I would have to add 4 dry yeast bags as a starter for belgian tripel but based on my experiences this seems a lot as even two of dry yeast were wrecking havoc in my fermentor.
Any suggestion?
Typically I have added 2 packs (10g, 50 billion cells) for 30 liters batch while on my first full grain I have normally screwed it up and got malt at around 1.090 (and a few other things I wasnt aware of, like leaving hops in beer for whole night). The result was quite surprising, at the end of fermentation it got to around 1.008, getting 11% of alcohol and it was quite sweet with hop hitting at the end.
I wanted to experiment a little bit with this weekend brewing and I would like to try to make a starter.
Now I am having a bit of a problem of how many bags to use for starter as even with the 2 dry yeast bags it is quite violent and typically most of fermentation was done in first few days. I have used the calculators but got me nowhere, I would have to add 4 dry yeast bags as a starter for belgian tripel but based on my experiences this seems a lot as even two of dry yeast were wrecking havoc in my fermentor.
Any suggestion?