# Recipe Creation & Yeast Stock / Management

**URL:** <https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-creation-yeast-stock-management/5123>\
**Category:** Help & advice\
**Tags:** production\
**Created:** [29 October 2024 21:00 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-creation-yeast-stock-management/5123 "2024-10-29T21:00:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![benjamin-lawson](https://community.breww.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/b38774/32.png) [@benjamin-lawson](https://community.breww.com/u/benjamin-lawson)\
**Post date:** [29 October 2024 21:00 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-creation-yeast-stock-management/5123/1 "2024-10-29T21:00:46Z")

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I’m starting to set up my first set of recipes and I’m a bit confused on how to best manage yeast properly in Breww. Should I be including yeast in each recipe’s fermentation stage or can I include yeast when I start a new batch? Should yeast as a stock item be reserved for only new pitches?

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**Author:** ![ben-collard](https://community.breww.com/user_avatar/community.breww.com/ben-collard/32/1560_2.png) [@ben-collard](https://community.breww.com/u/ben-collard)\
**Post date:** [30 October 2024 09:13 UTC](https://community.breww.com/t/recipe-creation-yeast-stock-management/5123/2 "2024-10-30T09:13:51Z")

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Hi Benjamin, Thanks for your comment! How you manage your yeast in Breww will depend on how you handle yeast day-to-day. If you are regenerating your yeast/pitching it and then cropping it, then it will be best to create a ‘Yeast batch’ for this. Our [Yeast/ingredient batch management](https://community.breww.com/t/yeast-ingredient-batch-management/871) guide discusses this process further. This will allow you to create a ‘yeast batch’ in which you can then add a yeast ‘stock item’ to the yeast batch; this means that the cost of the yeast stock item can be distributed amongst your batches when pitching your yeast; each generation will be tracked, and extracting yeast from a batch will automatically increase the generation by one.

If your yeast is only being used on a single batch and is not being regenerated, you could choose to simply add an ingredient to the fermentation stage in your recipe; the full cost of the ingredient stock item will then be attributed to the beer batch. I hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions. Cheers!