Yeast Starter with Corn Sugar instead of DME?

[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?

[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..

[BDawg]

+1

[rhino777]

+2

[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.

[11amas]

I believe this is called the crabtree effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabtree_effect