FermentingFreak
Active Member
Yeast Health Uncertainty...leaving a novice brewer nervous with questions.
I gambled (stupidly) and ordered the NB 115th Dream Hopbursted IPA Extract Kit with Wyeast American Ale 1056 online. It just happened to ship during a really hot week and was delivered in the early morning when I was at work (when typically my deliveries usually occur in the evenings when I am home) on the hottest day of the year! When I got home and unpacked the box, the smack pack was swollen although not bursting at the seams. I put it into the fridge, it reduced back to near normal size, and its been sitting cold for over two weeks.
To be on the safe side, I purchased a new smack pack when I found myself near a LHBS.
This is a higher ABV (9.2%) brew, I want to ensure I pitch enough yeast to work through this, and I hate to waste anything so my question is: Can this previously warmed yeast be salvaged, say maybe in a starter, to be pitched with the good pack? Or should I just suck this up, chock the $7 dollars loss up as a lesson learned, and make a starter with the good pack? Now that I think about it...is one AA 1056 smack pack going to be enough?
Any thoughts and advice will be greatly appreciated.
I gambled (stupidly) and ordered the NB 115th Dream Hopbursted IPA Extract Kit with Wyeast American Ale 1056 online. It just happened to ship during a really hot week and was delivered in the early morning when I was at work (when typically my deliveries usually occur in the evenings when I am home) on the hottest day of the year! When I got home and unpacked the box, the smack pack was swollen although not bursting at the seams. I put it into the fridge, it reduced back to near normal size, and its been sitting cold for over two weeks.
To be on the safe side, I purchased a new smack pack when I found myself near a LHBS.
This is a higher ABV (9.2%) brew, I want to ensure I pitch enough yeast to work through this, and I hate to waste anything so my question is: Can this previously warmed yeast be salvaged, say maybe in a starter, to be pitched with the good pack? Or should I just suck this up, chock the $7 dollars loss up as a lesson learned, and make a starter with the good pack? Now that I think about it...is one AA 1056 smack pack going to be enough?
Any thoughts and advice will be greatly appreciated.