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   1. Storing open wet yeast?

      by Koda, 11 years ago in BIABrewer.info and BIAB for New Members

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      So I made a hefewiezen recipe last night that I converted down from a 6 gallon batch to make 2 gallons. The only change I made was I ended up using dry yeast instead of the wet the recipe called for.
      
      I had the vial of wet yeast in my hand and just couldn't justify spending $7 on something I was going to end up throwing half of in the garbage. The dry yeast I can at least fold down the bag and store in the fridge.
      
      Am I correct to assume that once I crack the seal on a wet yeast container that...

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      Hi Koda, weirdly enough, I was just reading:
      
      which is a pretty simple method for splitting Wyeast smack packs.
      
      I'm pretty much a yeast newbie having only tried rinsing yeast once, but I believe the advantage of splitting a liquid yeast straight from the pack, as opposed to rinsing it after a fermentation or pitching on top of a yeast cake is that you are getting the yeast in it's pure form. Once you have made a beer on it, the yeast flavours, etc. will actually change, so on say your 1st,...
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      pat86
      11 years ago

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