{"id":394,"date":"2008-01-19T21:11:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T05:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=394"},"modified":"2008-01-19T21:11:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T05:11:41","slug":"instant-starter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=394","title":{"rendered":"Instant Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I may have reached my pinnacle for home brewing innovation. Well, not really, but I had a great idea so simple and obvious, I thought I&#8217;d share it. It has to do with yeast starters. Instant yeast starters. We all know having a good yeast starter is the first step to making a great beer. And sometimes, you just want to quickly pitch a starter and get back to your Friday night. My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=128\">standard yeast pitching method<\/a> involves pitching 1 cup of DME with a pinch of yeast nutrient into a 1 liter beaker. I break out the nappy bag of DME that&#8217;s sticky from steam and humidity, pour a cup, and try to then get the DME in to the flask through a funnel without spilling or stopping the funnel. One of the two always happens.<\/p>\n<p>My new method, as of tonight, is to buy a bag of DME, pre-measure in to ziploc bags with a pinch of yeast nutrient, then pack away in a safe container. Then, when it&#8217;s time to make a starter, just cut the bottom corner off a baggie and pour it into the flask. Add water, bring to a boil, cool, and pitch.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/instant_starter.jpg' title='Instant Starter'><img src='http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/instant_starter.jpg' alt='Instant Starter' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/easy_pour.jpg' title='Easy Pour'><img src='http:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/easy_pour.jpg' alt='Easy Pour' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel a little bad about all the additional baggies, but it&#8217;s really freakin&#8217; slick. And its still less material than a pitchable yeast pack and like 4 bucks cheaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I may have reached my pinnacle for home brewing innovation. Well, not really, but I had a great idea so simple and obvious, I thought I&#8217;d share it. It has to do with yeast starters. Instant yeast starters. We all know having a good yeast starter is the first step to making a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/?p=394\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Instant Starter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[42,111,117,122],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gear","category-homebrew","tag-dry-malt-extract","tag-starter","tag-tip","tag-yeast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rooftopbrew.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}