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Date: 12 Sep 2006 20:59:29
From: rjwhite6
Subject: Have you ever chilled, carbonated and drank the decanted "beer" from a starter?
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I did a 3-1/2 liter starter with Koelsh yeast.
S.G. 1.50 from DME boiled for 15 minutes, no hops.
hit with O2 to 16ppm (have DO meter)
fermented at 72 degrees for four days.
chilled to pitching temp 56 degrees.
decanted and carbonated starter "beer".
Interesting taste and aroma.
Not bad, certainly not great beer but I was expecting much worse.
Anybody done similar?
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Date: 13 Sep 2006 02:11:02
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Have you ever chilled, carbonated and drank the decanted "beer" from a starter?
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:59:29 -0400, <rjwhite6@cannedspam.msn.com > wrote:
> I did a 3-1/2 liter starter with Koelsh yeast.
> S.G. 1.50 from DME boiled for 15 minutes, no hops.
> hit with O2 to 16ppm (have DO meter)
> fermented at 72 degrees for four days.
> chilled to pitching temp 56 degrees.
> decanted and carbonated starter "beer".
> Interesting taste and aroma.
> Not bad, certainly not great beer but I was expecting much worse.
>
> Anybody done similar?
I've tasted a fermented starter before, but I didn't carbonate it. Basically
just drank it after decanting. Kinda weird, but then again the starter
is for growing yeast, not really making anything good to drink.
John.
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Date: 13 Sep 2006 09:26:02
From: Mark R
Subject: Re: Have you ever chilled, carbonated and drank the decanted "beer" from a starter?
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"John 'Shaggy' Kolesar" <spam@shagg.net > wrote in message
news:slrnegeqbg.3j3.spam@weizen.shagg.net...
> Kinda weird, but then again the starter
> is for growing yeast, not really making anything good to drink.
That being said, I have a couple lbs of LME that's been in the back of the
fridge for two years. Think it would work for starters?
Mark R
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Date: 13 Sep 2006 15:09:26
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Have you ever chilled, carbonated and drank the decanted "beer" from a starter?
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 09:26:02 -0500, <marknorayspam@noev1spam.net > wrote:
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> "John 'Shaggy' Kolesar" <spam@shagg.net> wrote in message
> news:slrnegeqbg.3j3.spam@weizen.shagg.net...
>> Kinda weird, but then again the starter
>> is for growing yeast, not really making anything good to drink.
>
> That being said, I have a couple lbs of LME that's been in the back of the
> fridge for two years. Think it would work for starters?
Should work fine.
John.
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Date: 13 Sep 2006 09:31:08
From: The Artist Formerly Known as Kap'n Salty
Subject: Re: Have you ever chilled, carbonated and drank the decanted "beer"
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Mark R wrote:
> "John 'Shaggy' Kolesar" <spam@shagg.net> wrote in message
> news:slrnegeqbg.3j3.spam@weizen.shagg.net...
>> Kinda weird, but then again the starter
>> is for growing yeast, not really making anything good to drink.
>
> That being said, I have a couple lbs of LME that's been in the back of the
> fridge for two years. Think it would work for starters?
>
> Mark R
>
>
Absolutely.
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Date: 18 Sep 2006 20:08:59
From: Warren Place
Subject: Re: Have you ever chilled, carbonated and drank the decanted "beer"
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On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, rjwhite6 wrote:
> Interesting taste and aroma.
> Not bad, certainly not great beer but I was expecting much worse.
> Anybody done similar?
I think the more oxygen you introduce to the starter, the worse the
starter will taste. It'd be interesting for somebody who is trying a
side-by-side comparision of starters grown with or without a stirplate to
taste the resulting "beers"
I tried my highly-oxygenated, warm-fermented starter once and it was
horrible. It was a little tart (but the yeast were free of contaminating
microbes), bland (I didn't add much hops) and tasted very stale.
Warren Place
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Date: 20 Sep 2006 09:11:50
From: mreckt
Subject: Re: Have you ever chilled, carbonated and drank the decanted "beer" from a starter?
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rjwhite6 wrote:
> I did a 3-1/2 liter starter with Koelsh yeast.
> <snip>
> decanted and carbonated starter "beer".
> Interesting taste and aroma.
> Not bad, certainly not great beer but I was expecting much worse.
>
> Anybody done similar?
The last couple times I made large starters for lagers, I bottled the
decanted beer and primed it for carbonation. I use these for boiling
brats before I grill them.
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Mark Recktenwald
Stow, Ohio, USA
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Date: 20 Sep 2006 21:45:38
From: rjwhite6
Subject: Re: Have you ever chilled, carbonated and drank the decanted "beer" from a starter?
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On 20 Sep 2006 09:11:50 -0700, "mreckt" <mark.usenet@gmail.com > wrote:
>rjwhite6 wrote:
>> I did a 3-1/2 liter starter with Koelsh yeast.
>> <snip>
>> decanted and carbonated starter "beer".
>> Interesting taste and aroma.
>> Not bad, certainly not great beer but I was expecting much worse.
>>
>> Anybody done similar?
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>The last couple times I made large starters for lagers, I bottled the
>decanted beer and primed it for carbonation. I use these for boiling
>brats before I grill them.
hmmm, interesting.
Do the brats taste the same as when you previously used real beer?
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