Yeast Starter: Skip flask and start in Carboy?

[Quin]

If you are making a starter for a lager where you would normally decant the fermented beer off the starter, then it wouldn't be very practical.

If its for an ale and you normally pitch the entire starter anyway, go ahead.

[JKoravos]

Depending on the size of starter and how it spreads out over the bottom of the carboy. Will shallower levels of wort truly affect how the yeast best grow? Picture a quart starter in a carboy. Maybe a 2 quart starter would be better. I am really not sure if it makes a difference or not. Just some food for thought.

Tilt the carboy at an angle...


I don't think it's such a bad idea, at least if you don't have, or don't want to buy, a stirplate. I've thought about fermenting out larger lager starters in my conical

[greglovesbeer]

This would be a 1.75L starter for the CYBI: Green Flash West Coast IPA clone (2 Vials of WL001).

The whole reason I ask is because I don't have a flask, tried to buy one and was told not to. I definitely found it weird.

I'm sending the wife to Morebeer to remedy the situation with a 2L flask.

-Greg

[JKoravos]

This would be a 1.75L starter for the CYBI: Green Flash West Coast IPA clone (2 Vials of WL001).

The whole reason I ask is because I don't have a flask, tried to buy one and was told not to. I definitely found it weird.

I'm sending the wife to Morebeer to remedy the situation with a 2L flask.

-Greg

Definitely get a 4 or 5 L. It will pay off in the future.

[bloberglawp]

more surface area = more oxigen for the yeast