Keeping a starter

[Jammybstard]

I've started a 1.5L starter of White labs Cal' Ale ready for a 23L brew At the weekend. But Works sending me down south for a week at short notice so brew's off. I was going to chill and decant the starter beer off anyway; I know it's not optimum but do you think it will be ok in a very cold fridge for a week?

 

[robsan77]

I used to sell those conicals when i worked for vwr........

I would decant the good yeast into a small sterile coke bottle, then make it back up again a few days before the next brew :thumb:

 

[craigite]

as r77 says. cool your starter down in fridge, let it settle, then use the sediment to make another starter.

 

[Jammybstard]

I'm not sure why I'm worried. I'm quite new to wet yeasts and propper starters. I've done my homework. if I use this starter to get my cell count up, store it cold and then just do a fast starter next time it'll fire ok I should think!

The flask was on the shelf in hop and grape, I just went in for some yeast and ended up spending thirty quid on sanitizer, DME and shiny stuff!

It's great the way you can put the flask on the hob though. No messing-on with pans

 

[Aleman]

It's great the way you can put the flask on the hob though .

It's even better when you take the hot flask with boiling wort in it and plunge it into a sink full of cold water