Heikki

Den faktor 10 du nævner, er det for at gærcellerne skal have noget plads at
boltre sig på? For hvis det er, så er der flere ting der falder på plads i
mit hoved, de sidste gærstartere jeg har laver, til omkring 80 liter øl, har
godt nok været noget sløve 

De tidligere gærstartere har jeg lavet, ved at putte en liter sukkervand OG
1050 i hver dag over 3-4 dage 

Vil også se om jeg ikke kan få noget luft i min starter, som Thomas skriver
om

-Har det bedst hvis jeg skal stå og tørre stormgærings skum af mine gærtanke
:-)

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Fra: Heikki Levanto [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sendt: 20. november 2005 18:39
Til: Mai-brit og Michael
Cc: [email protected]
Emne: Re: [Brygforum] Den perfekte gærstarter

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:45:36PM +0100, Mai-brit og Michael wrote:
> Har planlagt at skulle brygge 200 liter på mit efterhånden gennemprøvede
> anlæg, men jeg har aldrig prøvet at skulle lave en gærstarter til et så
> stort bryg før

I seem to remeber reading somewhere that you should increase your
starters by a factor of 10. Say, your first starter is 5 dl. Use that
for building a starter of 5 liters, and if that is not enough, use that
for building a starter of 50 liters. With that you should be able to
start as much beer as any small brewery needs... 

Of course the fine biochemists will chime in here and start to talk
about counting the billions of yeast cells, checing how many of them are
well and alive, if any of them are feeling slightly depressed today...
Let them.

All this is probably overdoing it for a mere 200 liters.  Since you can
get an awfully active fermentation out of a single packet of dry yeast
in 20 liters, you should also be able to make a very potent starter of
(say) 5 liters. Just rehydrate the yeast, and dump it in 5 liters of
good wort (which you can fake from dry extract, apple juice, or even
sugar and chemicals).

If I was about to brew 200 liters of beer, I would be a bit extra
careful with the receipe. Maybe brew a small 20 liter batch first, to be
sure all is well. And reuse that yeast, it should be enough to kick ass
in a 200 liter bucket.

Speaking of large batches, how big have you guys been brewing. My own
experience is limited to a "double" batch of 40 liters or so.

Lots of beer, anyway

   -H



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