CowboyShootist
Well-Known Member
Greetings,
I see people talking about yeast starters and propogating yeast from one batch to another. When I am at the LHBS I see about a million variations of yeast from dry to liquid, ale, lager, wheat, bavarian, american, and so on.
First, does the yeast variant make that much difference? I don't mean using a lager yeast in an ale (or vice versa) which I know some people do. Rather does it make that much difference if I use American Wheat yeast instead of Bavarian Wheat yeast in a wheat brew?
When people talk about maintaining a strain of yeast for years I understand that because my wife's family has a yeast starter for making sour-dough pancakes that they have propogated for a couple generations now. If I am harvesting yeast from a previous brew wouldn't that yeast need to be used in the same style of beer? In other words if the yeast variants make a difference do I need to have multiple yeast starters going?
I don't think the wife is going to like me filling up the fridge with multiple bottles of yeast sludge.
I see people talking about yeast starters and propogating yeast from one batch to another. When I am at the LHBS I see about a million variations of yeast from dry to liquid, ale, lager, wheat, bavarian, american, and so on.
First, does the yeast variant make that much difference? I don't mean using a lager yeast in an ale (or vice versa) which I know some people do. Rather does it make that much difference if I use American Wheat yeast instead of Bavarian Wheat yeast in a wheat brew?
When people talk about maintaining a strain of yeast for years I understand that because my wife's family has a yeast starter for making sour-dough pancakes that they have propogated for a couple generations now. If I am harvesting yeast from a previous brew wouldn't that yeast need to be used in the same style of beer? In other words if the yeast variants make a difference do I need to have multiple yeast starters going?
I don't think the wife is going to like me filling up the fridge with multiple bottles of yeast sludge.