Shipping of liquid yeast, transit time.

We only ship liquid yeast with DHL & DPD, we do not ship liquid yeast with EVRi as the shipping time can take a week  and as they have self employed drivers we do not know the conditions that the parcels may be held in prior to delivery. I.e. DHL & DPD’s warehouses are unheated, but an EVRi driver could be storing the parcels within their house.

If an order is placed between noon on Thursday and noon on Friday the order will be dispatched on Friday for delivery on Monday. This will result in the yeast being out of the fridge for an extended time however we automatically include a cold pack and such transit time will not be likely to significantly impact on the viability of the yeast.

Yeast isn’t as fragile as it’s often made out to be. We ship it into Europe regularly with higher ambient temperatures and longer transit times without issue. Having delivery take a 3 or 4 days isn’t a massive issue, even in warmer months.

There is a rate of degradation which occurs with liquid yeast, this is still present at optimum temperatures but increases as the temperature rises, it needs to be well into the 20’s for it to seriously affect the yeast over the space of a few days, given that there is a cold pack with the yeast it will still usually be cold for at least 24 hours from dispatch. In order to kill the yeast off you have to reach temperatures in the 50’s.

If you prefer to have the shortest transit times then please do order earlier in the week or at the weekend but do not feel concerned that yeast is going to be compromised if it takes a few days to arrive.

Please note that we still dispatch liquid yeast over bank holiday weekends, Christmas and Easter.