Yeast

[Deerhunter]

I've been using BSG Red Star Distillers Yeast for my Sweet Feed. I would like to get one more 30 gal. batch going before the cold weather sets in here. I usually use 1 cup of yeast. I have maybe a quarter of a cup remaining. Will using less yeast affect the flavor? The yeast colony should multiply over a few days regardless if I use a 1/4 or a cup is there a difference?

[bitter]

Make a starter in a 1 g jug before you make your mash if its a fresh mash. But I'm confused why you are re-pitching if you are sour mashing your sweet feed is there not a yeast cake in the bottom of your barrel.

I leave the grain with some fresh cool water over the gain so the yeast keeps living while I do my runs. Then I take hot backset to dissolve the sugar.. I carfully add this to my fermented added hot backset with dissolved sugar such that the temp does not rise to high and stir. I top up to the level I need for my ferment and the yeast in the barrel kicks the fermentation of normally in a few hours.

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[Deerhunter]

Didn't think I would do another run. So I cleaned my barrel out. Figured I'd keep the winter months for building When you say "starter" are you referring to a yeast bomb, or start a mini mash to get my yeast up and going. I do the same with my backset as well when doing back to back mashes. I was going to pack it in for the year but what I have sitting on oak turned out so good I need to get my barrel filled for the holidays. I'm amazed at what some charred oak can do to sweet feed!

[smokineod]

You should be fine, probably just see an increase in the lag time. And possibly alittle longer then usual ferment.