Danstar BRY-97 American West Coast Dry

[Blktre]

There are 4 pks left in a brown paper bag with my name on it that's in their fridge. I thought he said he was getting extra to keep on hand. Forgot to ask when I was in there.

[JMcG]

Three left now.
jim

[Joe Yoder]

I am curious as to others experience with this yeast. I am disappointed. The lag time between pitching and full on fermentation was much longer than I usually experience with liquid yeast that I have stepped up. I used 4 packages in 18 or so gallons, so it should have been plenty. I followed the instructions on the package and rehydrated the dry yeast. Lag time was greater than 24 hours. Temperature was a bit lower than usual, but I had another batch right beside it using a stepped up batch of White Labs 001, that started much sooner.
It is still in primary, so I don't know how well it attenuates, but I prefer much shorter lag times.
Anyone else have any experience with this yeast?
Joe

[Blktre]

What people are saying is you must rehydrate and pitch more than 1 pkg per 5g. My plan is to use 3 pkg in 10g then cultivate. Everyone is saying there is more of a lag than normal but once it starts it chews through nicely. I figure the extra initial pitch and cultivation things should work out pretty good with it. Nobody has complained of under attenuation and floccing capabilities that I have read.

[Joe Yoder]

Thanks for the info, Andy. At 5 dollars a packet, using more than 4 per 20 gallon batch is no bargain. I guess it saves making a starter, but unless the final results are amazing, I'll stick to liquid yeast.
Joe

[Matt]

I used this recently on a double-IPA. It's still in the fermenter, about to get cold-crashed tonight, but my initial tastes were good. There was a lot of latency on the initial signs of fermentation, but I did a very small pitch (un-typical for me, but then so is my use of dry yeast in general), so that slow start was expected. I fermented at 66-67 degrees, and the results were a very clean, but overall pretty underwhelming, yeast profile -- but then, with all the Galaxy hops in it, I never expected to detect much. :)

I too will likely stick to cheaper, easily propped-up liquid yeasts.

I'll bring some to a meeting to share.

Matt

[JMcG]

Lag time long, as noted, but finished quickly once it started. No off flavors.
Pitched on yeast cake for another beer, took off quickly, then slowed. Finished OK, but not as flocculent as the first.
Having trouble clearing, even with cold crash.
Probably will stick with the tried and true for future brews.
jim