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[Stout_fan]

To quote Johnny Dangerously.I did that............ONCE

Edited by Stout_fan, 02 April 2010 - 08:26 AM.

[TimE]

If you are looking for stuff to drink from your starters then maybe try making some 3 gallon batches of small beers (1.040 or so) with a direct pitch of your yeast. You will have real beer at this point and enough healthy active yeast toibrew whatever you want and won't feel like you have "wasted" anything.

[Deerslyr]

Here's a thought... get a Mother of Vinegar and make some good ole Malt Vinegar for Fish 'N Chips! Don't know why I didn't think of this before. I had always thought that if I ruined a batch of beer that maybe I'd just do that, but I don't think I could justify having 5 gallons of Malt Vinegar just sitting around. Now... a vinegar from a starter... that's another story.

[japh]

Fermenting a starter won't get you extra beer, but fermenting a beer will get you extra yeast.Skip the stirplate, increase the volume, add some hops, and you'll get a quite drinkable beer that can be decanted off the yeast.

Yeah, I always refer to my small beers as 5-gallon starters.We like having Milds and Bitters around here, so I'm always making my huge starters.