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Using Baking Yeast for Brewing

Depends on what back in the day means, I'd be willing to bet brewing strains in Europe go back to that day, as for homebrewing, I don't think there were many choices in any ingredients back in the day.

 

Ohhhh... 100 or more yers ago.

Marv.

 

Yeah, 100 years ago there wasn't much of a choice of ingredients for homebrewing at all.  If you were, you were probably growing iingredients (grain, hops) or getting whatever you could locally.  Yeast for bread was probably the only thing around...unless you were in Germany.

 

cmanley542 wrote:

Depends on what back in the day means, I'd be willing to bet brewing strains in Europe go back to that day, as for homebrewing, I don't think there were many choices in any ingredients back in the day.

Well yea, I guess if you lived in Europe and had access to those strains or lived close enough to a brewery in the US that was willing to give you some of their yeast.  But back in say the 1950's, you couldn't just stroll into your neighborhood homebrewing shop or hop online and order a packet of yeast, especially not a specific strain.  Back in the day to me is when my father used to brew...

DT

 

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