Yeast starters

[Peter_stanaway]

Does anybody make yeast starters?

If I'm making one I do 65g of dme with 2 tablespoons of old yeast boiled up in 2ltrs of water.

I take old yeast from the bottom of a fermenter and freeze it in ice cube trays 1 cube is 1 tablespoon.

This gives a high nitrogen low sugar starter which promotes yeast growth.

[Copperhead road]

Pete do you regularly use yeast starters?

I have only ever made 1 when I had 200L of fresh peaches fermenting for brandy, it stalled and I managed to get it going again with a yeast starter,

Is there advantages to using a yeast starter rather than the conventional way of just adding yeast to your fermenter??

[Peter_stanaway]

Liquid yeast is getting quite expensive, so you can buy 1 pack and split it in to multiple test tubes then make a starter or collect yeast from a fermentation and reuse that in a starter.