LarMoeCur
Well-Known Member
I've been using liquid yeast for 20 years. I always buy on Wednesday and pitch into a starter that night for my brew day on Saturday. Up until this month, I've never had a completely dead pitch. My starters always start, well I've had two completely dead pitches in the last 30 days. Pitched one August 8th completely dead, pitch one Wednesday this week. Both into a 1000ml (1.036) starter on a stir plate. Both completely dead. I just took a gravity reading and still right on 1.036 four days later. This one was manufactured on May 25th best by Nov 21st. Not the freshest of pitches but that's why I build it up in a starter.
Yeast isn't cheap at 8 bucks a pitch. Plus the cost of the DME in the starter, my time, and a completely wasted brew day that I cleared with SWMBO. I'm just glad, it didn't cost me a full batch. Now, I got to call the customer service line and ***** at them about getting my 16 bucks back!
I know it got shipped in the summer months. I know the homebrew shop may have not put it in the refrigerator right away. I know it's most likely out of their control. But, I got to vent! It completely ruined my holiday brewing weekend!
Anyone else have this happen? Did lighting strike me twice?
Yeast isn't cheap at 8 bucks a pitch. Plus the cost of the DME in the starter, my time, and a completely wasted brew day that I cleared with SWMBO. I'm just glad, it didn't cost me a full batch. Now, I got to call the customer service line and ***** at them about getting my 16 bucks back!
I know it got shipped in the summer months. I know the homebrew shop may have not put it in the refrigerator right away. I know it's most likely out of their control. But, I got to vent! It completely ruined my holiday brewing weekend!
Anyone else have this happen? Did lighting strike me twice?