Tomorrow's bree

[Rookie]

3 pounds pilsner dme, 14 ounces specialty grains, 1 ounce perle hops, and a pack of belle saison yeast.

[MashBag]

Where do you find the time for all these brews... Or do you just a cupboard full of ingredients

[WalesAles]

Rookie,
You making cheese as well?

Oh, sorry, that`s Brie

WA

[CJJ Berry]

Looks good I will be brewing on Monday 3.4 kgs of LME 227g of crystal malt, 40g Target, 40g Brambling x and 40g of WGV 45 minute boil 10l half the LME to start with the other half at 35 minutes. Always produces good flavoured Ale.

Happy brewing,

currently fermenting turbo cider, elderflower ale & ginger ale. on to elderberry wine tomorrow

[CJJ Berry]

by the way dry yeast I can't get on with the wet stuff

[Rookie]

Where do you find the time for all these brews... Or do you just a cupboard full of ingredients

I brew once a month and have enough to brew through May.

[Rookie]

by the way dry yeast I can't get on with the wet stuff

I've only used liquid yeast once in the past four years.

[MashBag]

by the way dry yeast I can't get on with the wet stuff

I've only used liquid yeast once in the past four years.

I can't help but think it is an unnecessary, expensive folly.

[guypettigrew]

I've only used liquid yeast once in the past four years.

I can't help but think it is an unnecessary, expensive folly.

Why ??

Guy

[MashBag]

Good question, why is it so expensive.

Tbh I think wet yeast for homebrewers is no more than clever marketting. When dried is the same quality.

[bitter_dave]

Good question, why is it so expensive.

Tbh I think wet yeast for homebrewers is no more than clever marketting. When dried is the same quality.

I think Guy was asking why it is unnecessary rather than expensive.

Isn't it about range rather than quality per se? Some yeasts don't like being dried as I understand it. I say this as someone who has almost always used dried yeasts for convenience but can the attraction of wet yeasts (I would love there to be dried version of WL002).

[guypettigrew]

Good question, why is it so expensive.

Tbh I think wet yeast for homebrewers is no more than clever marketting. When dried is the same quality.

Thanks bitter_dave, yes, I was asking why you think it is unnecessary. Having used both wet and dried yeast I find wet yeast gives a more complex range of flavours in the final beer.

As to expense; £9, or thereabouts for a sachet. Harvest it carefully and re-use. Just to be safe I only use it 4 times. About £2.25 a brew.

Guy

[MashBag]

I just find it odd that other practitioners of fermentation are perfectly happy with dried...
And there is an enormous variety.

I am doubtful if there are yeasts that wouldn't 'dry' well, but I do get that wet would work well for smaller runs, of less commercially viable strains.

Food for thought.