RIP BRY-97

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During the early daze of the pandemic I was having trouble getting what I needed to brew so among other things, I bought a brick of BRY-97.  The exp date was Apr ‘21 so before trying it out on a brewday I decided I’d test a little to gauge viability.

To test bread yeast I can add some sugar and yeast to warm liquid and see the foam develop. So, I figured I’d try the same thing with this expired BRY-97.

I have seen bread yeast develop foam within 5-10 minutes. I am going on an hour and a half and see zero action with this BRY-97. [emoji23]

I know BRY-97 is known as a slow starter so I am going to leave it out and see how long it takes. Of course, wild yeast or other beasties might give me a false positive in a day or so. To try to provide a control I set a sugar water only sample to see which (if either) foam and when.

Place your bets….

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It is slow in my experience.

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My bet would be it’s still good.

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Whew…

I thought this was something about Lallemand discontinuing BRY!

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I had the same impression from the title.

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Me three.

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Sorry… just my remnant of a brick. Mods feel free to chg the title if warranted.

3+ hrs:  nada.

1+ days: can’t say it’s nothing but I can say it’s weak. I have a bit of foam slightly larger than a half dollar. Nothing to commit to a brew. Most of it was just laying on the bottom. Time for new yeast.