Saving a Yeast Starter

Posted by Wink

May 11, 2008

So here’s my situation. I was planning on brewing a bavarian lager this weekend. I ordered the grain, the yeast, everything. On Friday I started to come down with a cold, but thinking that wouldn’t prevent me from brewing, I made the starter anyway. My starter is now 36 hours old and definitely ready to pitch. Yet, my cold has turned into a more serious situation, with lots of flew and bile. Needless to say, I’m not up for brewing today.

Since my brother will be in town next weekend, I’d like to put this off until then. It seems like I read somewhere that you can save a starter in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks, but I can’t find anything verifying that. I would seem to makes sense, given that you can save yeast slurry in the fridge, but I’d love to find another source on the matter.

Anyone know of anything?

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