Drinking your yeast starter

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Drinking your yeast starter

Post by cafelinhchi » Sat Jan 03, 2015 5:39 pm

Now while I am sure there is a post somewhere about this......I don't care.
Just wanted to post what I am drinking right now. This is the one and only bottle of my ??Belgian nut brown?? I had a 1 liter starter of Whitelabs Abbey Ale Yeast going at the end of October. I used wort from a batch of Bourbon Barrel Nut Brown I did the week or two before that didn't fit in my fermenter. It went for a little over a week and the yeast all flocked out. I decanted enough liquid to fill this one champagne bottle and the rest got pitched into my Belgian Tripel. No idea what the FG is but OG was like 1.050. Being that it wasn't in the flask very long before bottled, I decided to not add ANY priming sugar. I just dumped it in the bottle and capped it. Now almost two full months later I decided to see what I had. It tastes great! A little sweet but it has all the Belgian character from the yeast and the burnt nut flavors from the grist. Not what I would call AMAZING but very drinkable for what would have otherwise been washed down the sink. I have a huge Brett B. Starter going now (2 liters) that I will bottle a couple from. Take from this what you will.....but why not have fun with a free bomber or two

Matt12398

Re: Drinking your yeast starter

Post by Matt12398 » Sun Jan 04, 2015 8:42 am

Surely if your starter wort was 1.050 and the spent wort tastes like beer you didn't get your starter right? Your yeast favoured beer production over yeast growth.

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Re: Drinking your yeast starter

Post by IPA » Sun Jan 04, 2015 11:46 am

Matt12398 wrote:Surely if your starter wort was 1.050 and the spent wort tastes like beer you didn't get your starter right? Your yeast favoured beer production over yeast growth.
I used wort from a batch of Bourbon Barrel Nut Brown I did the week or two before
Surely it is beer not a starter made with DME. :?: Thats why it tastes like beer :!: Nothing wrong with that.
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Re: Drinking your yeast starter

Post by Matt12398 » Sun Jan 04, 2015 12:33 pm

That's sort of my question.

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