rtstrider
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Hey all I've been toying with the idea of tossing a non rehydrated pack of dry yeast into a 1.040 og 2 liter starter on a stir plate. I'd like to let that ferment out, split the starter up into 4 pint jars, then build up the pint jar slurry in a 2 liter starter. Essentially splitting the pack up so I get 4 uses out of it. I'm mainly looking at doing this with w34/70. It's a tad pricey for dry yeast and I figure what the heck? It's worth a shot. Yeah I know I know...Dry yeast would use up all of it's reserves and such...But here's the thing I was looking at. If I did this with a 1 liter starter I would not get much, if any, growth. However, it seems a 2 liter starter, then splitting up into smaller slurries to allow for growth/propagation might just be what the Dr ordered. I'll be doing this in the next couple of weeks. Has anyone tried this previously? If so what was your experience?