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How Potent is Killer Wine Yeast?

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E93Bausch

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So I just split a batch of wort to make an Irish Red and a Flanders Red. For the Flanders I pitched RC212 to leave some fermentables for the Wyeast Roeselair I will add in secondary. For the Irish Red I just pitched rehydrated US05.

Here is where I screwed up. I oxygenate after pitching. I hit the RC212 first then just moved the wand over to the US05 batch. I am sure I carried some of the RC212 over to the US05 batch, but not much.

Does anyone know just how potent "Killer" wine yeast is? Worst case is I will just make it a Brett beer or have a lot of Flanders next year. I am just wondering if I should be ordering more bugs or getting a Brett starter going.
 
Never mind, it turns out RC212 is a neutral strain not a killer strain. So it should be no problem. :D Proving that sometimes it is better to be lucky than good!
 
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