Does anyone have a dry yeast recommendation for a Belgian witbier?
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Patirck
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Never mind - Google saves me again...
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/dry-yeast-equivalent-white-labs-belgian-wit-wlp400-177751/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/dry-yeast-equivalent-white-labs-belgian-wit-wlp400-177751/
My experience has been that you're best using a a liquid yeast though.
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I'm going to send a liquid with a dry backup. I'm not sure how the liquid will handle the shipping time - I'll probably get a white labs vial and sandwich it between two ice packs. But I also want to send a dry yeast as a backup. From what I've read so far S-33 seems like a good choice.
You could send them DME and the instruction for bottle harvesting yeast from commercial beers, and have him pick up a sixer or 2 of Hoegaarden. I've harvested several mason jars of witbier yeast from it.
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I like T-58. S-33 was a little finninky for me, I had an issue that many others have also posted about where it stalled and then came back to life several days later with some serious coaxing. It's also not really a Belgian strain - it think it's EDME, but can't remember off the top of my head exactly.
