Fast Pitch Canned Wort - Thoughts?

Eh you'd still need to have a fresh jug of distilled water if you were OCD about sanitation like I am. It's a neat idea, but I'd be nervous about adding tap water like he does in the video.

 

Definitely cool for cutting time down on doing yeast starters, but I'm with Curt.. I'd still need to boil my tap water and chill it to be safe.

Next, there's going to be pre-hopped wort.. where you just pitch your yeast, and you've got 5 gal of "insert style here" beer! They're making brewing way too easy nowadays.

 

Starters come in many sizes. The product is dosed for one size and adequate within a small range. I don't find making a starter to be laborious or time consuming. For example, if it takes an hour to cool, I'm doing something other than staring at the cooling starter for an hour. The actual labor time for a starter is about 10 minutes with much longer periods of free time that you can use for more important things, like drinking beer.

 

Man, what have we been missing all these years!?!?

http://www.midwestsupplies.com/munton-s-ipa-bitter-hopped-kit.html

 

I saw this on their site today too. I like the concept, but I don't think I would buy it. The main reason, as stated by others above, was I would still want to boil and cool the added water. At that point it's not saving me time. Cost wise, it would then be more per batch, as a few ounces of DME for a starter is only about a dollar (at $0.27 per oz where I buy it).

 

I believe you still need to mix with water and boil, but I've never used the stuff before

 

I can starter wort at 3x the strength, then add 2 parts bottled or ro water when I'm ready to make a starter. I've been doing this for a year with no issues. Up until a year ago I just made it at 1x strength so no water was added.

Seems like this is an easy way to get similar results, though I'll keep canning my own!

 

Those pre hopped kits are just add water, no need to boil. They are very popular here. I've made a few just with water straight from the tap, never had an issue. Some can make nice beers if they are fresh. Some don't.

 

I save and frigerate a QT of pre-boiled wort from my current batch to use as a starter for the next batch.
Cost: $0.00

 

The rescue wort is a combo of the pre-boil gravity sample ... excess 3rd runnings ... and the post-boil hydro-sample where the mongrel OG is typically in the upper 40s to low 50s.

When starter day rolls around; water is added to dilute the rescue wort to the low 30s before pitching the yeast.

 

One stupid friend: "Cool, a new style of beer." SIP! (Vomits on my rug and fails to clean it thoroughly).

 

This is the TV dinner of brewing. It doesn't count.