The Bar Towel

Ale Belly wrote:Can someone tell me if there will be a problem if both packs of yeast are active? .. Can there be too much yeast?

The yeast will mulitply to MANY times the amount that is in those two packets. It just means they won't spend as much time mulitplying & they'll start fermenting... which is a good thing.

It's great if you can plan a second brew (which is often bigger) & throw it directly on that yeast cake (when you transfer that one to a secondary fermentor after a week or so). This saves on the cost of yeast & the fermenation starts really quick.

When yeast are multiplying, they supposedly do produce more esters though... so if you desired more esters, you may not want to use a huge cake (like for a hefeweizen).

Yeah... dont worry, no one here can even afford too much yeast in a beer.

I pitch liquid yeast in 2 litre starters.