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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?

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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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!

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