rehydrateI just bought a brewers best IPA kit for my first brew. The yeast packet says I should rehydrate before pitching, but the instructions the kit came with says "DO NOT REHYDRATE." Which one should I follow?
I just bought a brewers best IPA kit for my first brew. The yeast packet says I should rehydrate before pitching, but the instructions the kit came with says "DO NOT REHYDRATE." Which one should I follow?
I questioned the brew shop guys as to why they don't advise people to re-hydrate and they said that in their experience, some customers using dry yeast are rookies and re-hydrating incorrectly is a big risk for contamination. They said it is easier to instruct customers to use it the most risk free way (dry) and that if someone is more experienced, they will re-hydrate without being told to do so.
THIS ^^^Although I usually use liquid, The first time I bought dry yeast at the local brew shop, I was told to never re-hydrate and to always sprinkle dry on top of the wort. After reading several posts here, I decided that it would be best to re-hydrate to get faster starts and have more cells survive the initial pitch.
I questioned the brew shop guys as to why they don't advise people to re-hydrate and they said that in their experience, some customers using dry yeast are rookies and re-hydrating incorrectly is a big risk for contamination. They said it is easier to instruct customers to use it the most risk free way (dry) and that if someone is more experienced, they will re-hydrate without being told to do so.
toThat sort of does make sense all things considered, just so they don't actively scare people away from ever rehydrating their dry yeast (even after they become quite capable of doing so correctly).
The cell count in packs of dry yeast is high enough that you don't have to, and there are risks associated with rehydrating that make it not worth doing.
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