Northern Brewer Yeast Starter Kit - 1000 ml

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A yeast starter is one of the easiest and most dramatic ways to improve the quality of your homebrewed beer. A single pack of yeast often does not contain enough cells to ferment a beer properly - especially higher-gravity beers and lagers. Use this yeast starter kit to grow your yeast cell count to the proper pitch rate. Achieve the ideal attenuation in your brews.

Propagating a single pack of yeast using our yeast starter kit exponentially increases the number of cells you pitch. With a higher pitching rate, you will see a shorter lag phase, lower amounts of fermentation-related off-flavors, and less incidence of bacterial contamination in your beer.

Preparing a yeast starter is easy - you mix a very small batch of malt extract wort (without hops), briefly boil and chill it, then ferment it in a flask a day or two before brewing the main batch. The yeast cells from a single pack of yeast will reproduce in the starter, increasing in number from a few dozen billion cells to hundreds of billions.

The 1000 ml yeast starter kit is a great general-purpose size for five gallon batches. It features a heat-resistant borosilicate glass flask, a foam stopper, one pound of DME, and complete instructions.

Additional information

SKU 7055

Includes:

  • 1000 mL Erlenmeyer flask
  • Foam stopper
  • 1 pound of DME
  • Complete instructions

This kit works great with either our Maelstrom programmable stir plate.

Making Yeast Starters

Customer Reviews

Based on 122 reviews
77%
(94)
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(18)
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M
Mike

Does the job

J
Jeffrey D.
Great service.

I enjoy using Northern Brewer. They have great communication and ship in a timely manner.

K
Katherine S.
Simple, great results

Making a starter is so easy—it just requires a little extra planning. Highly recommend for brewing better beers. Just be careful... I broke my first flask. Totally my fault for not slowing down while handling glass.

J
James M.

Don't buy the 1000ml because you'll immediately want something bigger. 2000ml is the smallest you'll ever want and you'll probably want to go bigger than that.

D
David T.
Very pleased

Everything showed up on time and in good condition. I’ve run two starters through it and had wonderful results. At first thought I the 1000ml flask was too small, but it ended up being just right.

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Customer Reviews

Based on 122 reviews
77%
(94)
15%
(18)
3%
(4)
5%
(6)
0%
(0)
M
Mike

Does the job

J
Jeffrey D.
Great service.

I enjoy using Northern Brewer. They have great communication and ship in a timely manner.

K
Katherine S.
Simple, great results

Making a starter is so easy—it just requires a little extra planning. Highly recommend for brewing better beers. Just be careful... I broke my first flask. Totally my fault for not slowing down while handling glass.

J
James M.

Don't buy the 1000ml because you'll immediately want something bigger. 2000ml is the smallest you'll ever want and you'll probably want to go bigger than that.

D
David T.
Very pleased

Everything showed up on time and in good condition. I’ve run two starters through it and had wonderful results. At first thought I the 1000ml flask was too small, but it ended up being just right.