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Offline danmages

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English Mild Yeast Starter
« on: September 15, 2014, 08:59:40 pm »
If I need to cultivate 400 billion yeast cells (approximately) to brew a Russian Imperial Stout, I might as well make something drinkable! IF my calculations are right, I can cultivate this much yeast with plenty leftover by making a 2.5 gallon starter at 1.040. Luckily, I have a 3 gallon carboy sitting empty. A simple English Mild should do the trick. How does this recipe look?

3 lbs Maris Otter
4 oz Brown Malt
4 oz Extra Dark Crystal
2 oz Chocolate

Mash at 155

.5 oz EKG

90 minute boil

Wyeast 1028

Thanks!
« Last Edit: September 15, 2014, 09:02:24 pm by danmages »

Offline klickitat jim

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Re: English Mild Yeast Starter
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2014, 10:07:50 pm »
Seems fine to me.

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Re: English Mild Yeast Starter
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2014, 06:02:32 pm »
One minor change... I was not confident that I could effectively mash such a small amount of malt in my tun, so I am going to use 2.25 lbs of Maris Otter LME and make this a partial extract.

Dan

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Re: English Mild Yeast Starter
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2014, 06:04:49 pm »
Brew in a bag it

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Re: English Mild Yeast Starter
« Reply #4 on: September 17, 2014, 05:21:05 am »
One minor change... I was not confident that I could effectively mash such a small amount of malt in my tun, so I am going to use 2.25 lbs of Maris Otter LME and make this a partial extract.

Dan

Just out of curiosity, how large is your mash tun?  I have a 10 gallon Blichmann kettle.  Would that be considered too large to mash just a few pounds of grain?