I can't imagine how difficult it must be to make the choice to carry them now. No doubt they make fine yeast but you are also going to hear a lot of negativity from your customers.
I got my LHBS selling both the liquid and dry 001 for $15 each. It's not terrible for the liquid but hurts for the dry. I am 001 dry curious, but not for that price. I have Atlantic Brew Supply as the slightly farther store and they are doing dry for $10, so maybe one day I'll try it.My local store here sells some of the new yeast for $24.00. Nope, not ever for that price.
I don't suppose they responded?I provided a pretty in depth feedback to WL about the fact that they created a product that doesn't really have a market...
Did you see evidence that the WL packs had a longer shelf life than other brands? It can be hard to sort through the marketing claims from various manufacturers. I use a lot of dry yeast now, but WL has been my most used liquid brand over the past 5 years. I liked the compact packaging and I felt like they had decent shelf life, but I still saw fairly sluggish results with 4+ month old packs.I started selling WL was because the pure pitch classic packs were still priced at about the same as Omega but had very long shelf life.
They said to call and we'll have a talk. When I can find some time I'm going to do that.I don't suppose they responded?
Did you see evidence that the WL packs had a longer shelf life than other brands? It can be hard to sort through the marketing claims from various manufacturers. I use a lot of dry yeast now, but WL has been my most used liquid brand over the past 5 years. I liked the compact packaging and I felt like they had decent shelf life, but I still saw fairly sluggish results with 4+ month old packs.
The old pack size actually fit me well. I often brew 2.5 gallon batches and would direct pitch a pack (for a low gravity beer and fresh pack). I could either make a starter for a larger batch, but I would often just harvest from the initial 2.5 gallon batch and get a few batches out of one pack. Maybe the resealable pack is useful for us small batch brewers, but doubling the cost of yeast is more likely just to push me more towards $5 packs of dry yeast.
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