Active Dry Yeast

[BrewBama (Dwain)]

Well, I read this article on the AHA website concerning active dry yeast. Demystifying Active Dry Yeast | American Homebrewer's Association

I was astonished to read “Although the first yeast biomass culture was dried back in the early 1970s for the baking industry, ale brewing yeast was not dried until the 1995, and lager yeast until 1996!”

I began thinking, no wonder dry yeast has such a bad reputation in the brewing industry, they were selling bread yeast before the early 90(s).

This stigma has been hard to live down even though the article says “Since the late 90’s ADY has come a long way and the industry agrees that ADY today has a state-of-the-art quality…”

Anyway, good article.

[alestateyall (tommymorris)]

@BrewBama

Well, I read this article on the AHA website concerning active dry yeast. Demystifying Active Dry Yeast | American Homebrewer's Association

I was astonished to read “Although the first yeast biomass culture was dried back in the early 1970s for the baking industry, ale brewing yeast was not dried until the 1995, and lager yeast until 1996!”

I began thinking, no wonder dry yeast has such a bad reputation in the brewing industry, they were selling bread yeast before the early 90(s).

This stigma has been hard to live down even though the article says “Since the late 90’s ADY has come a long way and the industry agrees that ADY today has a state-of-the-art quality…”

Anyway, good article.

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Nice article. Though it seems Lallemand and Mangrove Jack’s are coming out with new ADY strains faster than Fermentis.

[mdyer909]

I looked through my old recipe book and I used Whitbread Ale yeast a lot prior to 1995.  I’ve got a recipe for a bitter using Notty from 1995.  Also Edme, Redstar, Yeastlab, all before or in 95.  My first Wyeast smackpack was 95 too.