[Homebrewers] What to do?

[Frenn, Michael]

Two plus bubbles per minute is probably fine for a starter - remember,
your volume is 1/5 a normal batch.  do you see any yeast building up on
the bottom of the startert jug?    What are you brewing?  If your
gravity is below 1.055, you're probably fine.
 
I'd brew the beer, decant most of the starter liquid off, then pitch the
rest.  Swirl that jug real good to get all the yeast into suspension.
Also, don't forget to flame the mouth of the jug.
 
M

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[mailto:homebrewers-bounces at hazeclub.org] On Behalf Of james cooper
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 7:03 PM
To: homebrewers at hazeclub.org
Subject: [Homebrewers] What to do?


What to do?
 
I am ready to make a 5 gallon batch of beer tomorrow, so:
 
1.  September 3-Made a beer starter. Boiled 3 cups of h2o with 1 cup of
liquid malt, and when cooled pitched into a 1 gallon container, and put
on a fermentation lock. (Made sure to pour mixture from 6' to aerate
well with a liquid California Yeast)
 
2.  September5-no bubbling action in fermentation lock.......Hmmmmm!
maybe I did not aerate enough. Poured into a sanitized pan at 7 a.m.
back and forth to gallon container, then reaffixed fermentation lock.
by 3 p.m. the lock was "burping" 1 bubble every 27 seconds
 
3.  Tomorrow I want to brew beer, but is this weak fermentaion starter
enough to pitch in my wort?  It is still "burping" 1 bubble every 27
seconds.
 
What to do?  I have a beer in a secondary that I will bottle/keg
tomorrow also.  Should I:
 
a.  Use the slurry for a starter?
b.  Use the (what I consider a weak starter) to pitch into tomorrows
brew?
c.  Use a dry yeast which always works?
d.  Use a., b., and c., to make sure it works?
 
What should I do in this dilema, 
 
Jim Cooper
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