On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:21:49PM +0100, Peter Vendelbo wrote: > > På Håndbrygs side, kan man læse hvor meget gær der skal bruges hivs > man vil lave 25l øl; 11g tørgær skulle være nok til 25L og en pose gær > var også nok. Jeg vil lave ca 70L øl, skal jeg så bruge 3 poser gær, > og lave en starter på 3 - 4 L, og kan jeg bruge 40 - 50 g tørgær og > lave en starter på 3 - 4 L?
Of course you can. There are some of us who believe that a starter (from 11g dry yeast for 25 liters) is not necessary, the dry yeasts being so active. You might get away without one, if you use 3 bags. Just rehydrate them (soak in cold boiled water for something like 10 minutes, see the package). On the other hand, you can make as much of a starter as you want, from only one bag of yeast, how ever small. From a dry yeast bag you can easily make half to whole liter starter. Once that has got to its most active stage, you can pitch it into a 10x larger starter, 5-10 liters. or just add a few more listers of wort (or apple juice, or what ever works for you - see the list archives for discussions). That way you can grow a "slant" with only a few yeast cells into an industrial starter of 100 liters, in a small number of steps. Yet another way is to make a smaller batch of beer first (say, to test your receipe), and then reuse all the yeast from the primary fermentation for the next, larger, batch. just be *damned* sure there is no infection in the first beer, or you spoil them both. Remember, it will be beer anyway! -H -- Heikki Levanto LSD - Levanto Software Development <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
