Have you ever used 'active dry yeast' to brew beer?

in my knowledge 60% small scale breweries use dry yeast for fermentation, because of it's great flavour, I've been using safale and saflager for a long time, and it's attenuation and flocculation rates are very impressive. I found a article on google about it, it might help you : Dry Yeast vs. Liquid Yeast. read more

The downside to dry yeast is that not all strains can survive the production process, so there are far fewer yeast strains available for beer brewing (there is an excellent selection of dry strains for wine and mead making, however). read more

You could use baking yeast for brewing, as both yeasts are different strains of the same species, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, but brewers' strains have been cultivated for hundreds of years for specific attributes regarding flavor, attenuation, and consistency. read more

Yeast starters are not optimal for dry yeast because they can use up the nutrient reserves of the yeast. The downside to dry yeast is that not all strains can survive the production process, so there are far fewer yeast strains available for beer brewing (there is an excellent selection of dry strains for wine and mead making, however). read more

If you meant active dry brewers yeast then of course it will. Yeast is not designed but cultured and isolated. A certain characteristic is found to be desirable about a yeast strain and we focus on manipulating that action by the yeast. In that sense yeast is specialized to produce CO2 (gas), ethyl alcohol, certain ester (sweet) compounds, and others. read more