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How soon before a brew do you make your starter from dried yeast? I've made starters from liquid yeasts and I normally give them a couple of days before pitching. The dry yeast I will be using is Lallemand American East Coast Ale Yeast. The reason I am making a starter is so I can collect...

Thanks for the interesting post. The closest I ever get to this where I collect too much wort from a single mash to fit in my boiler so I end up doing a mini brew with the remainder of the runnings. The second brew is often done in a stock pot on the cooker which boils much faster than my...

Bradley, I have just brewed using Lida which I purchased from the yeasterbunny on ebay. I produced a yeast starter using the dried yeast (looked like mud scrapings) a day before pitching into the main wort. It did smell stronger than other yeasts whilst fermenting. OG 1.060 FG 1.014 when I...