ApolloSpeed
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My WLP820 yeast asks for a yeast starter....but I only have Dextrose on hand. No DME or LME.
Will that be ok?
Will that be ok?
Someone with more experience with starters can follow up and confirm this for me (or dispute it), but from what I understand it's not a good idea because you get the yeast geared toward eating the wrong type of sugar that way. Using DME, they're used to maltose when they get tossed into the wort.
That's right. Within 1-2 generations the yeast will lose the ability to create the enzyme needed to ferment maltose.
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