I'm brewing my second-ever batch tomorrow, and I'm a little unsure about the amount of yeast to use.
I formulated a recipe using the calculator on Brewer's Friend which is loosely based (or, at least, somewhat similar) from Stone's RUINATION.
I have two smack packs of American Ale yeast, which says 100 billion cells on each package. But the calculator suggested I need 190 billion yeast cells.
Do I pitch both packages? It's a big beer, so they have a lot of work to do, and I don't want to stress them out too much. But the package itself says one package only per five gallon batch of beer. For this batch, I'm not using a yeast starter, although I might try one on the next beer I brew.
Any advice on this would be great.
I formulated a recipe using the calculator on Brewer's Friend which is loosely based (or, at least, somewhat similar) from Stone's RUINATION.
I have two smack packs of American Ale yeast, which says 100 billion cells on each package. But the calculator suggested I need 190 billion yeast cells.
Do I pitch both packages? It's a big beer, so they have a lot of work to do, and I don't want to stress them out too much. But the package itself says one package only per five gallon batch of beer. For this batch, I'm not using a yeast starter, although I might try one on the next beer I brew.
Any advice on this would be great.