Does Dry yeast work like liquid yeast? Starter or no starter? Pitching in 4 hours
Read the directions for “re-hydrating” it. That’s all you need. (no starter)
No starter. You can rehydrate if you’d like, but I normally don’t bother. What is your target OG?
SOO I went with the sweet wort and dry pitched for 3 hours. OG was 1.083, and the package just said pitch into the wort. I totally did not feel right about it, so I got it going in some Sweet wort with 1450ml starter. Starter was only DME, hoping it would get the yeast going. The batch is going super strong, so I am keeping fingers crossed. Hit above the mark on OG. Plan was 1.077 on a Big I.B.A. Really should be called “black” versus “brown” he got 7oz of Black Prince and 7oz Pale Chocolate in 7lbs Pale and 7 oz Victory and 3.5 oz Crystal 55L with 4lbs Extra Light DME 2lbs of Brown Sugar. Our conversion seems to have gotten too high, our PRE-Boil was 1.145 with the 2lbs Dark Brown Sugar, which I thought it was too high (his beer his way though). Which I figured it would be better with DCS but he wanted the Molasses over the dark syrup. Oh well to each his own. I did do a 3rd running and got 1.030 out of it though with 6 gallons. Trying to decide what to spice it up with, one mans trash is another mans experiment I guess. Thanks for the shout out.