Odd question.
Here's the deal.
1. I want to brew tonight but I don't have time to make a starter for my washed (2nd generation) US-05 yeast.
2. I am making a 5.5 gal batch of IPA (OG: 1.060).
3. I have 1 packet of US-05 and about 1 cup of washed slurry that is about 2 months old.
Would it hurt anything to pitch the 2 month old slurry directly to my wort along with the 1 packet of the same yeast in dry form?
Yeast Calc says that I need 230 Billion yeast cells and I estimate that my washed yeast slurry has only 100 billion cells left as viable so I would need at least another 130 Billion cells.
I know that 1 packet of dry yeast is probably enough for a 1.060 5.5 gal wort but I would rather overpitch than underpitch an IPA. I'm just not sure if pitching dry yeast + slurry into one batch of beer would have any potential issues?
Thoughts?
Here's the deal.
1. I want to brew tonight but I don't have time to make a starter for my washed (2nd generation) US-05 yeast.
2. I am making a 5.5 gal batch of IPA (OG: 1.060).
3. I have 1 packet of US-05 and about 1 cup of washed slurry that is about 2 months old.
Would it hurt anything to pitch the 2 month old slurry directly to my wort along with the 1 packet of the same yeast in dry form?
Yeast Calc says that I need 230 Billion yeast cells and I estimate that my washed yeast slurry has only 100 billion cells left as viable so I would need at least another 130 Billion cells.
I know that 1 packet of dry yeast is probably enough for a 1.060 5.5 gal wort but I would rather overpitch than underpitch an IPA. I'm just not sure if pitching dry yeast + slurry into one batch of beer would have any potential issues?
Thoughts?