BrewBrain Sports Investing

I found a good use for the bottle from that horrible Big Ass Beer. It makes a decent yeast starter container:

I’ve got an IPA planned to start at a gravity of 1.073. I don’t want to just pitch my vial of WLP001 - it might not be enough. Even it it does get the job done, it would take it quite a while to get the ferment started. I just pitched the vial with this same yeast on my pale ale and my vanilla porter (which may have gotten stuck). However, I made a starter out of it with the American Amber that’s in secondary. The fermenting started many hours sooner with the starter, and it went like crazy for a few days. It did the job perfectly, too. That beer started with an OG of 1.058, so quite a bit smaller than the planned IPA.

Anyway, I haven’t decided whether to brew this weekend sometime - probably Sunday afternoon - or next weekend. If I wait until next weekend, I’ll have time to build this starter up and harvest some of the yeast for another beer later. If I brew this weekend, I’ll have to spend another $7 on yeast for the next batch. I don’t really want to wash yeast from a beer with an OG of 1.073. It might work, but I don’t know that for sure. I haven’t tried.