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Surley when you crop from a batch of beer (Top crop, Bottom crop, Washing trub or w.h.y.) then it matters not a jot as to where the original pitch came from Dry packet pitched dry, Dry pitched rehydrated, Liquid pitched straight, liquid bulked up in a starter, washed yeast, trub!

After all a single viable yeast cell or 20 billion brothers and sisters or so don't remember their parents!

Or am I wrong?

"Will_D":1dc6uzfn wrote: Surley when you crop from a batch of beer (Top crop, Bottom crop, Washing trub or w.h.y.) then it matters not a jot as to where the original pitch came from Dry packet pitched dry, Dry pitched rehydrated, Liquid pitched straight, liquid bulked up in a starter, washed yeast, trub!

After all a single viable yeast cell or 20 billion brothers and sisters or so don't remember their parents!

Or am I wrong?[/quote:1dc6uzfn]To do with nutrient availability in dry vs liquid & environmental stress causing mutations

Just got the go ahead to release this. Episode 18 of the Irish Craft Beer Show, a tour of the Boyne Valley Fruit Farm, home of Dan Kelly's cider.

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Part 2 from Alltech is now live, featuring St. Mel's Brewing, Galway Hooker and 5 Minutes of Finney.
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Just realised I never posted Part 1 here. Check it out at the link below:
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Episode 21 - American Beers. Our supreme leader joined me for a brewday and some beers he brought home from the USA.

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Episode 23 now live, as I wire up an stc1000 to serve as my new fermentation temperature control.

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