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[Big Nake]

Just got an email about THIS.  Buy canned wort for a starter?  

[Bklmt2000]

I can make a helluva lot more starter wort, for cheaper, than what MoreBeer wants.  Pass.

[positiveContact]

I can make a helluva lot more starter wort, for cheaper, than what MoreBeer wants.  Pass.

 

it would be cheaper to just buy more yeast.

[Big Nake]

Heck, for $16 I can make an entire 5 gallon batch of beer! 

[HVB]

I had seen this on Omega yeasts Instagram feed.  I think they were involved in it in some way.  I like the concept but not the price.  If I am spending $16 on a 4-pack it will have lots of hops in it

[Bklmt2000]

it would be cheaper to just buy more yeast.

 

True.  Sixteen dollars can buy a couple of nice smack packs of liquid yeast, or 3-4 packs of good dried yeast.

 

And if you're already have the stuff and the know-how to make a starter (which I think is most everyone in the beer forum), that's even less reason to buy canned starter wort.

 

I'd rather take the time to make a starter myself, than trust a canned product of perishable wort where I don't know how it was handled/stored/sealed, etc.

 

Too many unknowns that I'm not going to risk a batch of beer over.

[djinkc]

Plus you have to dilute this stuff.  I'm not using tap, bottled or distilled water.  170df minimum or boil.  Might as well make a starter in that case

[Bklmt2000]

Plus you have to dilute this stuff.  I'm not using tap, bottled or distilled water.  170df minimum or boil.  Might as well make a starter in that case

 

Also true.  Seems like a solution in search of a problem.

[LeftyMPfrmDE]

I recall several years back NB made a similar product called fast pitch; with the selling point "It saves so much time!!" with the need to dilute and heating, it be easier to make a gallon or two of a 1.040 BIAB of base malt, divide up into mason jars and freeze. 

 

or pull the trigger on a pressure cooker and make your own canned starter wort. 

[Big Nake]

Apparently they forgot that homebrewers are notoriously cheap. 

[HVB]

Apparently they forgot that homebrewers are notoriously cheap. 

Cheap on some things .. other things not so much

[Big Nake]

Cheap on some things .. other things not so much

That's true.  $7 for yeast is outrageous but $150 for an SS pot or an SS fermenter or $140 for a mill (the list goes on... CO2 tanks, a new fridge, a $100 thermometer) is totally acceptable. 

[HVB]

That's true.  $7 for yeast is outrageous but $150 for an SS pot or an SS fermenter or $140 for a mill (the list goes on... CO2 tanks, a new fridge, a $100 thermometer) is totally acceptable. 

can seamer

[Big Nake]

can seamer

Okay, now you're just bragging.