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What's the longest amount of time that the yeast could still be taken out of its dormancy? I still have five starters in the fridge and would like to be able to take advantage of those, but don't want to hassle with them if they won't end up working out anyway. If I took the refridgerated...

If I'm doing it initially, I stick it all in a large container (say, a cooler) and use my sanitizer, which helps remove the label, making sure to get all the gummy gunk out of the bottle. I then put all the bottles onto a cookie tin and cover each mouth with a small piece of tin foil, securing...

Ah, that was a wonderful how-to! I followed it completely and made my sets of starters last fall and just tried to pitch it into the fermenter on Sunday. I pitched a standard Safale 05 yeast packet (rehydrated and all the correct way) into the other 5 gallon fermenter and that started bubbling...