St. Patty's Day gone wrong

[jbloeser]

So I stopped by the local home brew store on St. Patty's morning and purchased some supplies including 2 white labs yeast vials: Beligian Wit and California Ale. I usually bring them home and throw them in my produce drawer of the fridge. Maybe because of St. Patty's day fun I apparently put them in my bag and just found them today. Which means for the last 12 days they have hovered around 70 degrees. They weren't opened and I now have them back in the fridge but my question is do I just make up an extra big starter when I'm ready to use them and hope for the best with some backup dry yeast on hand? Are they garbage and I should just throw them out? Please tell me I'm not the only idiot who has done this, and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Jeremy

 

[BoundForBeer]

Make a starter.. see how that turns out.. go from there Good Luck

 

[devilishprune]

I've ordered yeast in the summer from Texas. It took about 5 days to get to me and who knows how long is was in the back of a truck. I didn't get any ice packs and it turned out great after I made a starter.

 

[erikpete18]

If you're really worried, make a smaller starter to begin with (maybe 1/4 the size of your planned starter). Grow it up overnight, cool it for a day, and decant. Then just make your regular starter and pour it on top of the yeast cake, should give you more than enough yeast to work with.