Home Brewing - Splitting A Liquid Yeast Pack

Splitting a Liquid Starter

Use this method to make multiple brews from a single smackpack or vial of liquid yeast, to get the most for your money!

Liquid beer yeast smackpack — The expanded "smacked" pack

Opening the beer yeast smackpack — Opening with sterilised scissors

Pouring out the active beer yeast — Carefully pouring out the active yeast

Adding the beer yeast to the starter wort — ..and adding to 1/2 gall of boiled, cooled wort

Lag phase of homebrew fermentation — The starter just after pitching..

Fermenting homebrew starter — ..and after 24 hours

Split homebrew beer yeast starter — After it's almost fermented out, the starter is split into six small bottles.

Storing homebrew beer liquid yeast — The yeast must be kept refrigerated or it won't keep for more than a couple of weeks.

Each bottle can be used to make up a new starter to pitch into your wort.

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