On 05 May 2005 19:11:16 GMT, "Peter.QLD" <a@b.c> wrote:
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>"peterlonz" <peterlo@mail.com> wrote in
>news:yuzce.33565$5F3.1774@news-server.bigpond.net.au:
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>> I believe that no-one can provide a reliable answer for you.
>> It's most unlikely that you will be able to control your yeast
>> temperature to within an envelope of 4 degrees anyway, regardless
>> of the average. I would judge that if you can keep within 10% of
>> the recommendation you will be fine & unable to detect any
>> difference. The problem is of course, you will never have a
>> reference standard anyway, all other things being equal (more or
>> less) there is sufficient variation between individual home brews,
>> that you can never be sure exactly what caused which small
>> detectable variation. Often its just age. Most important IMHO: use
>> a good beer yeast, I accept the recommendation of my local
>> brewshop on this. Pete
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>I still don't fully understand the benefits of good yeast, I'm not
>challenging the wisdom of them, I just don't understand. What kind of
>flavour difference would be noticed between, say, baking yeast and a
>packet of something that costs $10. Also, what is it that stops
>manufacturers of cheap brewing yeasts finding a strain of the same
>quality as the expensive stuff and producing at the same cheaper price?
>Or is it just expensive because they produce small quantities of a
>bunch of specialty strains?
>
>peter[/color]

Do your own experiments, then decide for yourself. I use baking yeast
as my backup and get great beer, comparing dry "ale yeast" to dry
"baking yeast." Dry lager yeast does seem to make better beer than
either baking or ale yeast, in my opinion - or maybe I just like
lager.

$10 a packet? Low end Doric yeast is <$1 a packet and most of the
others $1.50+. For between $5 and $10 you can have liquid yeast. In
the US . . .

The liquid yeasts are more varied and variable, and can be worth the
difference in cost (especially if you keep them going by reusing the
old yeast). The yeast offers a lot of the subtlety that makes the
difference between good and exceptional.

Experiment.

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