Wort starter completed and Yeast Pitched. Starter wort – 2 liters filtered tap water , 5 oz malt sugar, 1\/4 tsp wyeast yeast nutrients, 4 northern brewer hops flowers. boiled for 10 min. When making a starter wort I use a sanitized 2 liter soda bottle.<\/p>\n
I usually prepare the bottle by rinsing out the bottle with oxyclean solution, Then rinsing with water, then sanitizing in a no rinse idophor solution, then covering with fresh piece of aluminum foil. I sanitize a small funnel and small strainer the same way. To cool the wort down after the boil, I fill the sink partially with water and place the pot with a lid on it in the water. I then add ice cubes and cold packs. The starter is usually down to 60-70 ish within 30-40 mins.<\/p>\n
After the starter wort is cooled down, I strain it into the 2 liter botle using the funnel and strainer. I then shake the wort for about 15 mins to get some air(oxygen) into the solution. I then squeeze the bottle a few times to get some new air in being careful not to push a lot of foam out, then shake 15 more mins.<\/p>\n
I then sanitize the fully expanded weast propigator pack with 90% rubbing alcohol and sanitize the mouth of the 2 liter bottle the same way. I then open the yeast pack and carefully pour the yeast slurry into the bottle, then place the aluminum foil on the 2 liter bottle again. I then shake the bottle another 5 mins, then place a 1 gallon ziploc bag over the top of everything and place in a cool dark corner of the house. I usually place the bottle in a bucket or a sink in case it foams over while the yeast is getting started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wort starter completed and Yeast Pitched. Starter wort – 2 liters filtered tap water , 5 oz malt sugar, 1\/4 tsp wyeast yeast nutrients, 4 northern brewer hops flowers. boiled for 10 min. When making a starter wort I use a sanitized 2 liter soda bottle. I usually prepare the bottle by rinsing out the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitter2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joshbrews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}