lager yeast starter

[meirion658]

Attempting my first lager on Monday and just starting to plan things out.

I intend to use a liquid yeast. At what temperature would do the starter? As I'm aware lagers are brewed at a lot lower temp than ales

 

[Cestrian]

You can do the starter at room temperature. You don't have to pitch the starter beer. Crash cool and decant that off.

 

[meirion658]

You can do the starter at room temperature. You don't have to pitch the starter beer. Crash cool and decant that off.

How many days prior would you start the starter ?

 

[Brew_DD2]

How many days prior would you start the starter ?

I'd start today/tomorrow and do a couple of steps.

 

[Cestrian]

Depends how much yeast you need, how strong your og is etc. Use a yeast calculator like Mr malty. Usually need a few steps.

 

[foxbat]

How many days prior would you start the starter ?

If I'm brewing on a Sunday and my starter needs only one stage then I'll do it on Tuesday evening. The starter itself will be finished typically by Thursday evening then I take it off the stir-plate and switch the brew-fridge on to cold crash it. By the time I need to pitch into the chilled wort the starter will be clear enough to decant off 90% of the spent 'beer' from the top leaving just a few cm to swirl up the settled yeast so it can be tipped out of the flask into the wort.