Yeah...$50 for a 10bbl pitch is A-Ok by me. Plus you can store them in your cold room for up to two years. So I always keep backup bricks around.
Seems to me that if you're paying $300 for an equivalent pitch, you're worrying about stretching as many generations as you can from it (as we do with our liquid pitches of our Kolsch strain). Whereas with a $50 dry pitch of US-05, I'll go four to six generations and if it starts doing anything weird, or just sits for too long or I get a poor harvest or something, then I've always got a fresh pitch in the cooler ready to go. Or as an emergency backup if say, something is unexpectedly lagging really badly.
Seems to me that if you're paying $300 for an equivalent pitch, you're worrying about stretching as many generations as you can from it (as we do with our liquid pitches of our Kolsch strain). Whereas with a $50 dry pitch of US-05, I'll go four to six generations and if it starts doing anything weird, or just sits for too long or I get a poor harvest or something, then I've always got a fresh pitch in the cooler ready to go. Or as an emergency backup if say, something is unexpectedly lagging really badly.
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