Dry yeast

[Todd]

I've been looking at the equipment from Midwest and I plan to purchase soon. I want to get one of their kits to start but I'm not sure what the different yeast choices really mean. Could someone give a breif run down? I'm in PA if that matters.

The base kit is muntons dry, do I just pitch it dry?

There there is a smack pack and liquid, also something with a starter??

 

[Fatabbot]

This will answer all of your questions:

http://howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6.html

 

[Todd]

This will answer all of your questions:

http://howtobrew.com/section1/chapter6.html

Thanks for the reminder, I did actually read over that before.

 

[gauthierk]

From one beginner brewer to another, starters are the bomb. My first three or four brews, I just pitched white labs but I"ve started making the starters. It takes maby 30mins to prepair one but you shave several days off of your fermentation and the fermentation takes off like a rocket to reduce the chance of infection. I'd look into it...

 

[homebrewer_99]

From one beginner brewer to another, starters are the bomb. My first three or four brews, I just pitched white labs but I"ve started making the starters. It takes maby 30mins to prepair one but you shave several days off of your fermentation and the fermentation takes off like a rocket to reduce the chance of infection. I'd look into it...

Ahhh...another convert to starters. Dontcha just love it?

 

[the_bird]

Ahhh...another convert to starters. Dontcha just love it?

Speaking of converts to starters...

How long's it take to get a starter going? I'm planning on hitting the HBS Saturday morning to pick up supplies (I have nothing on hand). I was planning on Sunday being a brewday (gonna give Walker's IPA a shot). Would it be worthwhile to try and get a starter going only about 20-22 hours before pitching? If I just buy a good liquid yeast smackpack, will that give it enough time to work? Or should I just plan on NEXT weekend being the brewday?

 

[Beer Snob]

I start mine two days before. Also want to say that if you find that you just need a non specific yeast, the drys are very good. I did my last brew with two packages of dry yeast (rehydrated) and the fermentation exploded in under 3 hours! Really depens on what you want. Liquid yeasts have gotten obviously very specific.

 

[the_bird]

I've always used dry yeasts in the past, wanted to "graduate"; guess that will wait 'til the NEXT batch. Thanks, I thought that I might be pushing it a little.

 

[david_42]

Yeast will double every two hours or so. Think of it this way, every hour the starter grows is one hour less before the fermentation phase starts in your wort.