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I haven't used dry yeast since my very first batch back in '05. What I have been doing with some degrees of success with WL is saving yeast slurry/washing. Well lucky me I just had to dump three batches from two different strains of saved yeast! Dude, Bird and Bernie; sorry for the Rye... I owe you and Bernie don't drink it if you haven't opened it yet. Bird was not so lucky. It only got worse Bird .
I'm done with saving yeast other than the occasional on top of the slurry but am thinking I don't need to always put up $8 for some WL for every batch. I don't experiment too much with different styles of yeast and am usually using WLP002 - English Ale, WLP001 - CA Ale. I know some of you have been using dry with great success and I'm looking for some opinions for similar strains to what I've been using if they exist. I know Safale and Nottingham has been discussed but there really doesn't seem to be that much info that I could locate. My LHBS of course has a poor(?) selection of dry (Coopers, Munton, Nottingham & Windsor).
I haven't used dry yeast since my very first batch back in '05. What I have been doing with some degrees of success with WL is saving yeast slurry/washing. Well lucky me I just had to dump three batches from two different strains of saved yeast! Dude, Bird and Bernie; sorry for the Rye... I owe you and Bernie don't drink it if you haven't opened it yet. Bird was not so lucky. It only got worse Bird .
I'm done with saving yeast other than the occasional on top of the slurry but am thinking I don't need to always put up $8 for some WL for every batch. I don't experiment too much with different styles of yeast and am usually using WLP002 - English Ale, WLP001 - CA Ale. I know some of you have been using dry with great success and I'm looking for some opinions for similar strains to what I've been using if they exist. I know Safale and Nottingham has been discussed but there really doesn't seem to be that much info that I could locate. My LHBS of course has a poor(?) selection of dry (Coopers, Munton, Nottingham & Windsor).