First time starter maker looking for opinions!
I am high-fiveing my forehead because I should have taken a picture so sorry if that it needed.
This is the my first time making a starter. I started with 50g flour and 50g water. I stirred until it was thick like pancake batter. Covered with two coffee filters as a “lid”. 24 hours later I returned, there was some bubbles on top so moved forward with discard and feeding with 1:1 ratio. 24 hours later there was no rise seen but a liquid I determined to be hooch on top. I drained half the hooch, discard, and fed 1:1 ration. Day 3 (24 hours after first hooch finding) once again had quite a bit hooch with no rise seen. Discard and 1:1 ratio again. Last night was day 4, once again quite a bit of hooch (drained some) did discard and feeding but did 50g flour and 25g water this time. I checked this morning and still no rise just a lot of little bubbles on top. The house is kept at 73 degrees, I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I figured tonight or tomorrow I might do a float test but I am not too optimistic. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!