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Last Call: Free Fast Pitched Canned Wort Maelstrom Stir Plate, 5 Gallon Capable!
Maelstrom Stir Plate
The first industrial-grade programmable magnetic stir plate designed specifically for yeast starters.
Breed a Herculean army of yeast for brewing bigger beers than ever before. Powerful rare earth magnets churn through any size starter and never throw a stir bar. Five-speed control adapts to sizes from minute to mammoth, for yeast starters in a 1000ml Erlenmeyer flask, all the way up to a 5-gallon carboy.
Command a massive yeast starter while you’re at work or over the weekend. Let it run indefinitely, or program up to 48 hours of stir time. Schedule it to settle out yeast just in time to come home and brew.
Watch Maelstrom® surge through starter wort creating a vortex like no other. The transparent body shows the magnets whipping through rotation. Plus, the seamless surface makes for easy cleaning.
Easy to use with an intuitive interface, the Maelstrom® sets the new standard as the most powerful and versatile homebrewing stir plate ever created for the home brewer.
Features:
- Stir Bar Removal Tool
- Includes a 50mm stir bar
- Five distinct speeds, from 480-1440 RPM, to accommodate yeast starters up to 5 gallons
- Scheduling function for up to 48 hours
- Seamless surface for easy cleaning & maintenance
- Powerful magnets will never throw a stir bar
- Translucent body lets you watch the magnets in rotation
- Standard 12V Power Adapter
- Large 8″ W & x 8 ½” L stirring platform
Why a Stir Plate? The constant motion of a stir plate integrates oxygen, puts yeast in constant contact with nutrients, relieves built up CO2 and generally helps yeast to grow more rapidly. That also means smaller starters.
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Get a free 4-pack of Fast Pitch Starter Wort when you buy a Maelstrom Stir Plate. Use promo code STARTER.
Maelstrom Stir Plate – $135.99 when you use coupon code STARTER – make sure and add the Fast Pitch to your cart before checking out
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Despite all the nay-sayers, I like this product a lot.
I tend to brew mid week if I have a half day at work, so being able to crack open one of these cans, plus some bottled water (you don’t *have* to use tap water – so use something sterile or at least supposedly sterile), and a vial of yeast means 10 minutes to make a starter on an evening when I don’t have much time.
I’m willing to pay the price penalty to still make a starter, but make it more convenient.
So add tap water, which probably contains bacteria….no thanks.
Actually it is $10 for a four pack, so $2.50 for the 100g. Three lbs of dme at my lhbs is about $16 for muntons which works out to about $1.17 for 100g. So this product is a little more than double. That is not factoring in the cost of hearing the wort to boil and the cost of chilling it. Granted not a lot, but some. For the time saved it may be worth it. On the other hand I’ll take 3lbs of dme and pressure can 14 quart jars of ready to use starter wort. That will last me for a bit.
Very Gimmick’ey. Home brewers are prone to doing things ‘the hard way’. Cutting corners teaches them nothing. What about stepping up the gravity of your starter? Where’s the fail safe there? Oh I’m going to have to mix and measure if I want to increase my yeast count and stability anyways? Well why not just do it all my damn self?
Seriously, If you support these cans of laziness then save your time and money and just go buy your favorite sixer of beer off the shelf at the store. Shame on northern brewer for creating a lousy way to spin a dollar. There are no cutting corners in home brewing. If you’re cutting corners you are not home brewing. Period.
Am I the only one that thinks that $10 is a lot of money for 100g of DME? Guess I’m just cheap.
I think it’s 400g of DME (since it’s a 4-pack). Which is still a bad deal for $10 plus shipping.
OK – as a 4-pack it isn’t highway robbery. 2.50 to make a starter isn’t awful, but still, I guess I’m not their demographic. It feels like solving something that wasn’t a problem, but to each their own….
This is perfect for creating a yeast starter on a Tuesday or Wednesday night before brewing on a Saturday or Sunday. Boiling wort and cooling a flask in an ice bath after working all day is a pain-in-the ass.
Agree completely with Jason that this would be convenient. The problem is, this is a “just add water” product, which some people are going to want to boil rather than using tap water. So basically, as far as I can tell, this is pasteurized malt extract.