Yeast Starter with Corn Sugar instead of DME?
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 6:53 pm
by Crooked_S
Anyone know if my yeast starter will be OK if I make a 2 liter starter with 200 grams of corn sugar and 1 gram of yeast nutrient and 2 white labs vials on a stir plate? Thougt I had DME but didn't? Do I need to treat it differently when I use it? More important to decant it?
Re: Yeast Starter with Corn Sugar instead of DME?
Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2010 10:11 pm
by Stinkfist
Nope it will not be ok....You will make the yeast lazy and they will no longer be able to process complex sugars...wait and get some DME..
Re: Yeast Starter with Corn Sugar instead of DME?
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 5:36 am
by BDawg
+1
Re: Yeast Starter with Corn Sugar instead of DME?
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 2:25 pm
by rhino777
+2
Re: Yeast Starter with Corn Sugar instead of DME?
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 6:42 pm
by Crooked_S
Ah well. I knew even as I was doing it something wasn't right about it... I rehydrated some safale us-05 instead of using the wlp029 from the starter. It'll still be good.
Re: Yeast Starter with Corn Sugar instead of DME?
Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2010 9:55 pm
by 11amas
I believe this is called the crabtree effect:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabtree_effect