Yeah, I had never used liquid yeast before, so I wasn't aware of starters. but they assured me that it was just like pitching my dry yeast, except you didn't have to re-hydrate. That was in Tennessee a few years back. The beers were just low alcohol (5 +%) porters, but the dry yeast did the job - twice!. Unless I move to somewhere close to an LHBS, or start re-using my yeast, I'll stick to re-hydrated dry yeast, I've never had it fail me over the on and off 45-50 years of brewing wine and now beer.
I'm too old to move again anyways, I'm 110 miles from any big city, so my yeast will come thru the mail - probably from Love2Brew in NJ, or HBX from Oregon - between them they seem to give me the best deals on grain, hops and yeast, even tho I have to put a $75 order together to get the free shipping.
Just my 2 centavos ......
