Reddit mentions of Safale US-05 (3 ct.11.5 g Packs)

People have talked about this book/recipe enough that I’m surprised I don’t know more about it: can you give more details here? How much honey? How many gallons? Any other fruits or spices?

I like this dry ale yeast for lower gravity stuff, but most folks around here prefer dry wine yeast to ale in general. Depending on the recipe, I might stick with the ale this time (especially if it’s a quick mead).

Edited: clarity

do not use turbo yeast, take it from someone who has a friend, that has a dog that has made a few drops of alcoholic beverages... Turbo yeast will make it taste like you are drinking from that old guy at the gyms dirty racquetball socks. Use either a ale yeast us-05 or if you want to go cheap use something like ec-1118 and make sure there us no preservatives in whatever you are fermenting

A little counter-intuitively, spending money(for a grain mill) is probably the best cost saving move I made. getting 2row at $30/50lbs is pretty incomparable in the long term. That's ~$4 in savings per batch, on just the two row. probably a dollar or so on the specialty grains per batch also. A Cereal Killer/Barley Crusher pays for itself after 125 gallons brewed on the two row alone.

Yeast harvesting on the other hand, i felt wasn't worth the savings. Though i'd love for someone to show me the light, but here's my math.

• $8 Liquid yeast + $13 3lb DME = $21, without any additional yeast nutrients
  
  Makes enough for 9 overbuilt starters(151g of DME per starter, using the default values on http://www.brewunited.com/yeast_calculator.php with an overbuild value of 100billion cells)
  
  Personally, I generally use SNBCs yeast for almost all my brews. So WLP001 or US-05. $10/3pk on Prime. So, $30 vs $21 for the same 9 batches, so you save $1 per batch, again assuming you're not using any other yeast nutrients. But I can brew at a moments notice, not needing to plan an extra 30 minutes a day or two in advance of when i'm going to brew. And the dry packs take up hardly any space in comparison.
  
  Again, I'd love for someone to convince me going with overbuilt starters again(i can always have an extra pack of dry around for the spontaneous brew session) but the math just didn't seem worth it.

My favorite yeast is this

1 Packet is good for 5 Gallons, so you could use a fifth. You could also put the whole thing in.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007O2PEIK

3pks for 9.95 shipped

Like the guy below said, the fermented juice sounds better for your plants. This yeast is super reselient. You can just use sugar water. That way you won't have to worry about the fermentation temps for your beer/wine/mead. I would hate to lose a batch of beer because the room was too hot and the yeast died or made the beer taste nasty.