PBR4LIFE said:

I made two tonight for a double brew day on Saturday or Sunday

Pretty simple instructions:

1. figure out how big of a starter you need. Its based on your OG. For these beers I needed a 2L starter
2. Measure out 200 grams of pale dry malt
3. Measure out 2000ml of water
4. Find a pot big enough to handle the 2000ml and handle a boil
5. Bring water to a boil
6. Reduce heat way down and add dry malt (helps prevent boil over)
7. Increase heat and bring to a steady boil for 15 min
8. Cool the wort to around 80*
9. I use a big pickle jar from costco and pour the wort into the jar and pitch the yeast and cover with foil
8. If you don't have a stir plate give it a shake when you walk by

jeepinjeepin said:

Splitting hairs, but yeah. 200g DME and add water to make a total of 2000mL. It's slightly less than 2000mL of water, but close enough. The yeast aren't gonna measure it and say it's not quite sweet enough.

Lakewood said:

ceannt said:

OK ..... very silly question ....
Why does everybody switch units for starters?
Think about it.... you do batches in gallons .... pounds of grain .... ounces of hops ... calculate strike water in quarts per pound ....
its like having an engineering drawing with all the measurements in feet and a bar scale at the bottom with a scale of 1cm=1m

i think it mostly because you get Erlenmeyer flasks in metric sizes, not a lot of 1 gallon Erlenmeyer flasks out there

Lakewood said:

ceannt said:

Lakewood said:

ceannt said:

OK ..... very silly question ....
Why does everybody switch units for starters?
Think about it.... you do batches in gallons .... pounds of grain .... ounces of hops ... calculate strike water in quarts per pound ....
its like having an engineering drawing with all the measurements in feet and a bar scale at the bottom with a scale of 1cm=1m

i think it mostly because you get Erlenmeyer flasks in metric sizes, not a lot of 1 gallon Erlenmeyer flasks out there

Just too many significant digits ..... whole lot easier to screw up calculations.... 2000ml is just a hair more than 2 quarts (2.1) this stuff ain't rocket science ... why make it harder than it has to be?

if people are doing conversions then i agree. if they are just reading the values off the flask or switching their scale to si units, then i don't think its any easier to botch.

that said, i don't even measure for a starter...