Starter or extra Dry Yeast?

[Hootsmon]

Hi,
I've got my eye on an Imperial Ale for my next kit.

The OG will be approx 1057 for 23lt.

I was wondering about the best strain of yeast to try and also whether to try a starter for the first time or pitch 1.5 to 2 packets of dry instead?

Keen to hear your thoughts.

Cheers

 

[Yob]

if you don't have the stir plate, just pitch dry (re hydrated of course) 1.057 is smack on borderline but if I was to pitch dry, always err on the side of more is better than less...

US05
BRY97
Nottingham

 

[sp0rk]

This has just made me realise I only pitched 1 pack of rehydrated notto into a 1.070 extra stout last night...
Force of habit only using 1 pack with the majority of my beers being fairly tame
Oops...

 

[Hootsmon]

It comes with 05 yeast. Ill pick up an extra packet and chuck in two. To rehydrate or not. That is the question.........

Will save for a stirrer and do a starter next brew.

 

[Hootsmon]

This has just made me realise I only pitched 1 pack of rehydrated notto into a 1.070 extra stout last night...
Force of habit only using 1 pack with the majority of my beers being fairly tame
Oops...

Where did you get the 1070 stout kit from?

 

[sp0rk]

Where did you get the 1070 stout kit from?

Not a kit, all grain
but if you throw 2 kit cans and a kilo of DME in a fermenter, you should get close to that gravity

 

[Killer Brew]

Good thread. I'm brewing a RIS coming up using Windsor dry yeast that I expect will have a SG of over 1070. I mainly use liquid yeast and make starters but have never done so with dry. Is there anything I should be aware of before I do?

 

[GalBrew]

Just pitch 2 packs rehydrated. I recently fermented a 1.070 stout with 30g of rehydrated s-04. Hit it with a litre of oxygen and it ripped straight through it down to 1.014 in 4 days.

 

[Killer Brew]

I only have the one pack on hand though and was hoping not to have to make an extra trip to the LHBS

 

[Rocker1986]

I make starters with dry yeast occasionally when I buy a new pack if I feel like re-using it over and over. I just simply re-hydrate it and pitch it into whatever size starter it is, and carry on as usual. Seems to work fine in my experience. Still going on a pack of US-05 I bought last September.

 

[sp0rk]

I make starters with dry yeast occasionally when I buy a new pack if I feel like re-using it over and over. I just simply re-hydrate it and pitch it into whatever size starter it is, and carry on as usual. Seems to work fine in my experience. Still going on a pack of US-05 I bought last September.

I think this method will make me rethink my mantra of "NO STARTERS FOR DRY YEAST"
might change it to "REHYDRATE BEFORE THE STARTER"