agentbud
Well-Known Member
A Belgian Quad is next on my list. I've got a good recipe that I have used before but since I live in a suburb of hell, ordering liquid yeast right now is out of the question (normally I would use Wyeast 3787), so I need to sub in a dry yeast this time. I am considering Lallemand Abbaye unless there are some better recommendations...
So here is the question... when I plug everything into BeerSmith, I get an OG of 1.097 with a recommended yeast cell count of 358 billion. The spec sheet says Abbaye has 5x10^9 (5 billion) cells per gram so one 11g packet of Abbaye should have ~55 billion cells. Using basic math, one would think you would then need about 71.6 grams (about 6.5 11g packets) to reach 358 billion cells. However, BeerSmith says I should use 22.1 grams (see pic below). What am I not understanding here?
So here is the question... when I plug everything into BeerSmith, I get an OG of 1.097 with a recommended yeast cell count of 358 billion. The spec sheet says Abbaye has 5x10^9 (5 billion) cells per gram so one 11g packet of Abbaye should have ~55 billion cells. Using basic math, one would think you would then need about 71.6 grams (about 6.5 11g packets) to reach 358 billion cells. However, BeerSmith says I should use 22.1 grams (see pic below). What am I not understanding here?