BRY-97 is a often a reasonable substitute for the various "chico" strains (WLP001 liquid, US-05, ...).
I have a sachet (from back when one of the online stores was offering it free with a $89-ish purchase); but haven't used it yet. I wanted to refine my SNPA-inspired recipe before doing a split fermentation with it.
Yeah, Amazon is often rather expensive for small, cheap items due to the "free" shipping. You can get yeast in 3 or 5 packs for decent prices (though I am never sure how well it is stored).
It almost doesn't matter how dry yeast is stored.
I have had great luck with BRY97. It started a bit slow for me, but once it gets going it is a beast, at least in my experience. The beers I have done finished very clean and clear. I liked it and will continue to use it when appropriate. (LIsten to me talking like a pro, when in reality, a novice at best. LOL)
Is it my poor knowledge of British geography, or am I detecting some bullschitt in the BeerMaverick's article:
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LOL, I missed that the first time. That is funny if it is a joke.
A German brewer with a German yeast in the middle of an Angloscottish Fairyland, really?
That was my assumption.
It is a made up nonexistent location. That's the point. It's obvious, over-the-top BS. That is, a joke.
Kveik and sourdough shards can be frozen, but how about other yeasts?
I keep mine in the fridge. But I use little dry yeast. I’ve been a liquid yeast guy from my first batch. 25 years ago things were different and dry yeast was not as good as it is today. Back then nobody would touch dry yeast. It was stuff that came in a white unmarked packet under the lid of a malt extract kit. And the first thing you did was throw it away.
Well, since I was the one who said it, I will just say that has been my experience. Maybe I am just not the pro as you are yet, or maybe I am just not good enough, who knows. I have tried liquid twice and both times I had to add dry to get the fermentation going. So, sorry that it is beyond you, but I was just speaking on my experience. Take it for what it is worth, and trust me, it isn't worth all that much. LOL. Have a great day.
Then why do you suppose White Labs decided to start selling dry yeast?
You'd be better off searching for an existing thread where it's already been discussed quite a bit such as this one, which also has White Labs' own comparison of dy versus liquid yeast :
BRY-97 is not a substitute for a Chico strain, it *is* a Chico strain. It appears to be near-as-dammit a dried version of Wyeast 1056. But as has been noted, it tends to take a while to get going. See the family tree of Chicos in this post, assume that by Imperial M44 they mean MJ M44 which is generally considered to be a repacked BRY-97, then go down to the bottom of the page where a more recent paper suggests BRY-97 is closer to 1056 than US-05, which is still a pretty close cousin of 1056. It's all a bit indirect, but it seems to point to a consistent story. WLP001 is in a separate subgroup of Chicos to 1056/US-05.
Dry yeast goes off really slowly. I've had dry bread yeast sat in a cupboard at ambient temperature and it still had 40-50% viability after 20 years, it could still make bread albeit not as fluffy as brand new. But on that basis, it goes off at a rate of a few percent per year, even at ambient temperature, so I wouldn't worry too much about how it is stored as long as you're not leaving it for decades.
Yeah. I am still a little nervous about dry yeast packs sitting on a shelf in an Amazon warehouse or shipping dry yeast during the summer months, but maybe I should not be. A while back I was given a Brewer's Best Kit that sat around for a year after a cancelled event. The cans of extract were 1-3 months past the best buy date, and resulting "IPA" looked like a brown ale and tasted like toasted cardboard...but that pack of US-05 worked like a champ! I brew with 90% dry yeast these days, and I have no issues with using a pack that has been around for 3 years.
No it isn't a joke. And it wasn't obvious to anyone here. Even the Original Poster said " I missed that the first time."
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And that's the joke. Sort of, anyway.
The difference between US-05 and WLP001 is interesting. Not really a close race.
I have seen plenty of evidence that drying yeast does have some impact. That could be in play here. I am also not sure of the statistical significance of 10 vs 5 in a 11 person trail.
Actually, I wasn't asking you if I did.
