Starter gone bad
I did a starter with California Ale Yeast WLP001 with my stir plate. I had to leave town for several weeks and forgot to transfer it to a sealed container for long term storage.
This was the result: https://imgur.com/a/br0Ju5q
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Definitely wouldn’t pitch it. Spend a few bucks and do it again. I had a starter going for 4 days thanks to a delayed brew and it stalled at 1.040. Same yeast strain as well.
HeyGuysImJesus [OP] 1 points · Aug 2018
I use it so much of this particular yeast. I wanted to just get a whole bunch of it for storage. Unfortunately I only have a 1L beaker so I have to do multiple stages of starters to get what I need.
bitsynthesis 1 points · Aug 2018
I believe US-05 is the same strain, you might consider buying a bunch of it and not bothering with starters. Keeps for years in the freezer.
DSM20T 1 points · Aug 2018
4 days in a starter is too long? Eh?
Tranysaurus 1 points · Aug 2018
By day 4 the yeast started to die off based on the cell count I had. Still fermented the beer from 1.072 to 1.040, but I’m thinking the alcohol content in the beer killed off the rest of the weaker yeast?
DSM20T 1 points · Aug 2018
It goes dormant tho