I've been using liquid yeast for most every batch. Lately liquid yeast packs have not been fresh, shipping has always been a problem and my beer is not as crisp as before. There has been many advances in quality and selection of dry yeast so I gave dry yeast a try and found the results to be surprisingly good.
Even though a yeast starter is not required when using dry yeast will it do harm to hydrate the yeast for 30 min or so then add the hydrated yeast solution to a standard DME mix and put on the stirplate overnite. Is there a downside to doing this ? I'm trying to prevent under pitching.
Even though a yeast starter is not required when using dry yeast will it do harm to hydrate the yeast for 30 min or so then add the hydrated yeast solution to a standard DME mix and put on the stirplate overnite. Is there a downside to doing this ? I'm trying to prevent under pitching.