Culture storage

[Lawrence R]

Had an unexpected chance of a brew day recently but hadn’t prepped a starter and only had liquid yeast. Tipped in two smackpacks to 23L but fermentation didn’t start for days. So I made a starter from another smackpack and lo and behold as soon as I had done so fermentation started in the fv. The starter is in a flask with the top covered in tinfoil. obviously I don’t want to waste the starter and intend making more of the same beer v soon. So I’ve read up on storing it and I think this is correct. I should wait until starter fermentation is complete, move the entire flask to a fridge, when the next batch of wort is ready in about 3 weeks - restore the culture to fermentation temp, pour off the liquid over the settled yeast, pour the yeast into the wort. Is this correct?

 

[crowcrow]

Yes sounds right. You might want to either save some boiled wort or make another small starter wort to wake up the yeast cake.

 

[Lawrence R]

That makes sense. Thanks