Getting back into homebrew (yay!) and picked up a couple of packs of WLP029. Last time I brewed, White Labs shipped in test tubes, so this fanciness was new to me.
Need a big starter, so I am using them both. Shook them a bit and noticed they behaved differently.
I carefully cut the very tip top off the first outer package and pulled out the inner package fully intact. Neat.
Now that I was a pro, I did the same for the next. I immediately pulled out the inner pack and found all of the wort inside the outer package and the yeast (much thicker than the first) in the inner pack.
I could not find any holes but there was a darker area of yeast. Opened it and it smelled ok. Went ahead and started it in a separate flask and marked it as questionable. I’ll see what happens, but kinda bummed out by this.
Is this a total fluke or are there other issues? They were both stamped with the same date and lot #1076565.
Need a big starter, so I am using them both. Shook them a bit and noticed they behaved differently.
I carefully cut the very tip top off the first outer package and pulled out the inner package fully intact. Neat.
Now that I was a pro, I did the same for the next. I immediately pulled out the inner pack and found all of the wort inside the outer package and the yeast (much thicker than the first) in the inner pack.
I could not find any holes but there was a darker area of yeast. Opened it and it smelled ok. Went ahead and started it in a separate flask and marked it as questionable. I’ll see what happens, but kinda bummed out by this.
Is this a total fluke or are there other issues? They were both stamped with the same date and lot #1076565.