Big Yeast Starter part 2
So on to the next steps.
Here it is after about 9 hours on the stirplate:
Even on the stirplate, it still puts up quite a bit of crausen.
After 36 or so hours, it has died down, and the yeast have consumed all of the sugars and effectively quadrupled in numbers:
I have gotten the amount of yeast I want, but I don’t want to pitch 1/2 gallon into each carboy. This is why I got the starter going with some time to spare before brew day. I can now put the container in the fridge, and by Sunday all the yeast will have settled to the bottom. When I’m ready to pitch I can then decant all the spent wort save about 1 liter and split that between the two carboys. Depending on the flocculation properties of the yeast, this can take anywhere from 1 to 4 days or so. This particular strain is very highly flocculative (is that a word?), so it will drop out relatively quickly.
That’s all for now. I will be posting the recipe that I’m brewing on Sunday along with some pics of the actual brew day.
Blue's Brews 
Notice your heating your Erlenmeyer flasks directly over burner.
I am seeing some reports of this breaking the bottoms of the flask. A cheap copper head sink is available at Walmart and will prevent uneven heating that causes even pyrex/chemex glass to crack and break
From what I understand the flasks are made to be heated over flame, although I have heard reports of them breaking on electric stovetop burners.