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crazyseany · 11-07-2011, 06:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Reaver

Dry yeast is soo cheap for me... it's not worth gambling on used Pee Yeast. It works really hard and can be pretty stressed. I re-used a batch and it went bad during fermentation, I didn't realize it till I had poured the next batch on top of it! Basically I had racked into the bottling bucket and dumped the next batch on the slurry I had just racked from. Then went about bottling the first batch. That's when I found it was bad.

Can you use fesh dry yeast to start a batch? I have one empty primary left! Wgat kind of yeast if so?

**Reaver** · 11-08-2011, 05:38 PM

A few of us have been experimenting with DY (dry yeast) for a while now. All but 2 of my batches have been off Dry Yeast and I like it alot. Check out the post. The 2nd one should take you into that discussion a ways and there is a YouTube video someone did that I brought back to include. I used Redstar Montrachet the first few times and it cleared ALOT. My last batch was Cote de Blanc and it did not clear as well and took longer... I need to test another batch adn see if it was a fluke or from the Cote.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/skeeter-pee-starting-dry-yeast-212915/

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f25/skeeter-pee-starting-dry-yeast-212915/index18.html#post3228367

Jacob_Marley · 11-08-2011, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by crazyseany

Can you use fesh dry yeast to start a batch? I have one empty primary left! Wgat kind of yeast if so?

Usually I use the lees from other wines but the last batch I made was a double batch from dry yeasts.
EC-1118 and D47, side by side. Other than the extra DAP needed for the D47 carboy, they were otherwise identical.

Both were good but the D47 had a much fruitier bouquet and more pronounced lemon taste.