Truly pitchable yeast?

[olllllo]

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The smaller unit size allows your LHBS to offer more variety on the strains that they have on hand.

[andy77]

if your willing to spend $12 on a bigger vial why not just buy 2 regular size ones and skip the starter. same price, what's the difference. you open an extra cap. that works for 1.050 beers, but if you wanted a truly pitchable vial for something as big as a maibock and you were assuming 50% viability based on aging you would be paying $60 for the pitchable vial. that's the high end extreme, i see making starters as just part of the process and i enjoy making a nice little home for my yeasts before they jump in the fire. didnt you buy my temp controller? i hope its making some good brew.

Good point about just buying two vials. I wonder what the actual cost would be though to put it all in one.

The cost could be considerably less. Much of the cost of a product is in it's packaging. For example, I can buy a 2 oz. bottle of PBW for $2.50. That's $1.25 an oz. I can also buy a 4 lb bottle for $19.75. That's about 31 cents per oz. Though maybe not as dramatic, the same should hold true for yeast.

It's not the packaging so much as entry price. There's a certian business cost associated with delivering a product in any size, and as you increase the volume, overall costs go down.

ie, buying in bulk costs less per unit.

[whatsontap]

buy more packages?

Product sizing > logic

[ChrisKennedy]

Making a "truly" pitchable yeast contradicts their claims that their current packaging IS truly pitchable, therefore you will not see this sort of thing happen (unless they market it as a 10gal pitchable amount at least).

[whatsontap]

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