My starters rollin!

Beer Recipe Design
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Just started a 2.2L starter Wyeast 1728 tonight. I wanted to brew tomorrow night, but am thinking I want to cold crash first. Thoughts?

  1. Cold crash after 24 hours and delay brew day by 24 hours (or more?)?
  2. cold crash after 18 hours, then decant after 6-7 hours and keep brew day schedule in tact?
  3. No cold crash-just dump the whole thing around 24 hours

This is a 1.090 OG scottish ale.

Thanks for the feedback

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I can’t say if I’m right or wrong. I make my starters about a week in advance. Once I get it on the stir plate, it is on for 3 – 4 days depending on the work schedule. I cold crash the starter for 4 days. On brew day I decant off the beer then pitch the yeast. That’s a pretty big beer aren’t you doing a two stage starter? I’m not real schooled on big beers and starters for them. I just made a lager and YeastCalc had me making a two stage starter for it to get enough cells. I think the OG for that was 1.056
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Well, My starter is really rockin’ now. There was a thin krausen at 12 hours (on stir plate), so I thought everything was going well, then an hour later it’s overflowing. been slowly overflowing for the past 4-5 hours. I have sanitized foil for the top. I guess 2 L in a 2 Liter flask is just too much. Lesson learned.

Hopefully I won’t need to worry about contamination? I plan to let it calm down a little (hopefully soon), then cover with some fresh foil and pitch it tonight (24 hours total)

I have lost about 75ml from the overflow. I don’t think that should be a concern?

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I would not want to pitch 2l of warm fermented and probably oxidized beer into my 5 gallon batch of wort.

Like Bier brauer , I make starters a week in advance.

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You might get more responses if you posted this in the yeast fermentation section.

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Its recommended that you ferment for 48 hours Cause in that timeframe the growth phase while be done and after that you can coldcrash and decant. I usually coldcrash for another 48 hours so I have to plan 4 days ahead.

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