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Best Answer: 1/4 oz is roughly one tablespoon (3 teaspoons), but the amount of yeast you put in a bread recipe is not that critical. If you under-estimate the amount of yeast, it will take longer for the yeasts to proliferate and the bread to rise, but you'll still get a good bread. Red Star Yeast company says that one packet of 1/4 oz yeast has 2 and 1/4 teaspoons of yeast.
On Jamil's website he claims that there is on average 20 million cells/gram of dry yeast. so assuming 100% viability, a 11.5g pack of yeast would contain 230 million cells.ne 11.5 gr. packet is enough for 6 gallons of average gravity wort, so 2 packets should be plenty. I have no idea how many yeasties are in a packet, but one packet is quite adequate, and effective for each of my 6 gal fermenters, for average gravities. BrewerGeorge.